Quotes about Patience
And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”
— 1 Samuel 16:11
When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.
— 1 Samuel 20:19
But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”
— 1 Samuel 20:27
With these words David restrained his men, and he did not let them rise up against Saul. Then Saul left the cave and went on his way.
— 1 Samuel 24:7
When David’s young men arrived, they relayed all these words to Nabal on behalf of David. Then they waited.
— 1 Samuel 25:9
and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
— 1 Samuel 25:19
Then all the people came and urged David to eat something while it was still day, but David took an oath, saying, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”
— 2 Samuel 3:35
“Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
— 2 Samuel 11:12
David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’
— 2 Samuel 12:22
Now Absalom lived in Jerusalem two years without seeing the face of the king.
— 2 Samuel 14:28
Then he sent for Joab to send him to the king, but Joab refused to come to him. So Absalom sent a second time, but Joab still would not come.
— 2 Samuel 14:29
See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”
— 2 Samuel 15:28