Quotes about Patience

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.

We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

25th Anniversary. — Love seems the swiftest but is the slowest of all growths. No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.

She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all sorrow and an answer too fair and wonderful to be as yet understood.

In all the world I have no one but you. Help me to follow you, even though it seems impossible. Help me to trust you as much as I long to love you.