Quotes About Patience

even though there is very little that we know for sure about our lives and we experience constant surprises along the way, we need not give way to panic.

The difficulties we face in the here and now are not a sign that God has forgotten or abandoned us. He knows where he has placed us. He has placed us here because he is not after our ease; he is after our hearts.

All the things that disappoint you now are to remind you that this is not all there is

Their disappointed thinking had a fatal flaw in it. What they saw as being in the way of God's plan was actually part of his plan; what caused their faith to weaken was actually God's tool to build their faith.

Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. (James 1:19)

So remember today that no matter how hard your story is right here, right now, it is guaranteed for you as God's child that it will end better than anything you can now imagine, and that glory will never end!

Live in hope because paradise is surely coming, and stop asking this fallen world to be the paradise it will never be.

This means that if you obey him for a thousand years, you will have no more of his favor than when you first believed.

There is nothing more important to consistent, faithful, patient, loving, and effective parenting than to understand what God has given you in the grace of his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

If you put too many things in your need category, you will end up frustrated with life, hurt by others, and doubting God's goodness.

Hope is more than wishing things will work out. It is resting in the God who holds all things in his wise and powerful hands.

No hay función más importante para un padre que esta: paciente y amorosamente conducir a nuestros hijos al punto en que ellos también clamen a Dios por misericordia.

Marriage is meant to expose your self-focus and self-reliance. It is meant to convince you that you are needier than you thought you were and to encourage you that God's grace has more power to transform than you thought it did. Marriage is meant to teach you how to give, love, serve, forgive, support, encourage, and wait. Think

Your King rules over everything that would discourage and disappoint you, and he rules for your good and his glory. What is out of your control is under his rule.

Everything we say and do, everything we commit ourselves to, and every situation, location, and relationship we experience is experienced between the already and the not yet. You will never understand the things you face every day until you understand that you live in the middle. Everything in your life is shaped by what the middle is like.

What is God doing in the here and now? He is employing the difficulties of life as tools of grace to produce character in you that would not grow any other way.

You don't have to worry about whether your wrongs will be forgiven and your weaknesses greeted with patience and grace. You don't have to worry, because you have a Savior who has invaded your life with his grace and has made you the place where he dwells.

You are called to be an instrument of wisdom in your teenager's life. To do so, you must be gentle, humble, patient, and persevering.

The biblical model of waiting is not simply about what you will get at the end of your wait, but about who you will become as you wait.

Self-righteousness means you don't see yourself or the other person with accuracy. It means you see his or her speck as a log and your log as a speck. So you are condemning of him or her and excusing of yourself. You treat the other person with judgment while you respond to yourself with patience.

in the middle of the travail we all face one way or another, God is up to something good.

Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

Your rest is not to be found in figuring your life out, but in trusting the One who has it all figured out for your good and his glory.

There is grace for our fickle and easily distracted hearts.