Quotes about Patience

What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it.

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.

Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

Sometimes we have to let our dreams go in order to allow God to bring them back to us - in his way and his timing.

Don't worry about how bad things look right now. It's all going to fall into place. You'll see.

The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes.

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.

You know, when you wait for something you really want, it makes it even more special when you finally get it.

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.