Quotes About Patience

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

Life remains what it is--deathless and unbound. We shall all meet again. Know what you are, and be free. The best counsel today is, keep calm, aware. Don't let the pressure of mental environment break into what you know and what is real and ultimately true. This is your magic talisman to safeguard you; cling to it. The last word is--Patience! The night is darkest before dawn. But dawn comes.

Resentment is trying to change something that is just what it is. When we can't change it, we resent it.

The priest Zacharias heard God saying to him that He would grant him a son. However, Elizabeth, Zacharias wife was well advanced in age and well past childbearing age.

Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort.

It'll take weeks of grunt work and potentially lead nowhere," said Quill. "Excellent: that sounds like police work to me.

Many times expecting personal transformation to happen without humility is like expecting a car to move forward without fuel.

See the stone set in your eyes,see the thorn twist in your side.I wait for you

It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.

You are most humble and gentle when you think that the person you are ministering to is more like you than unlike you. When you have inserted yourself into another category that tends to make you think you have arrived, it is very easy to be judgmental and impatient.

True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.

God decided to leave you in this fallen world to live, love, and work, because he intended to use the difficulties you face to do something in you that couldn't be done any other way.

Remember, waiting isn't just about what you are hoping for at the end of the wait, but also about what you will become as you wait.

Psalm 27 tells that even in the middle of difficulties that we do not understand nor seem able to escape, we have reason to take heart and have hope.

You see, God hasn't promised you a good job or great kids. He hasn't promised you an easy marriage and a comfortable place to live. He hasn't promised you physical health and a good church to attend. He hasn't promised that you would experience affluence and be surrounded by things that entertain you. What he has promised is that he will complete the work that he has begun in you.

When you don't understand what's going on, run to God's goodness rather than questioning whether it exists.

Prayer is not bringing your list and asking God to sign on the bottom. Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

He lifts the burden of change off our shoulders and never calls us to do what only he can do.

We all face things that appear to make little sense and don't seem to serve any good purpose. So rest is never found in the quest to understand it all. No, rest is found in trusting the One who understands it all and rules it all for his glory and our good.

Tear up your list and throw it away—what God has planned for you is better than anything you've dreamed of for yourself.

Living in this present world is designed by God to produce three things in me — longing, readiness, and hope.

We realize that God has us just where we need to be so that his purposes for us and his promises to us may come to pass.