Quotes about Patience
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Jesus said, ''Go ye!'' but He also said, ''Tarry until!'' Let any man shut himself up for a week with only bread and water, with no books except the Bible, with no visitor except the Holy Ghost, and I guarantee, my preacher brethren, that that man will either break up or break through and out. After that, like Paul, he will be known in hell!
— Leonard Ravenhill
If we will give God time, He will give us timeless souls.
— Leonard Ravenhill
I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how He can be so patient with the pious. —GEORGE MACDONALD
— Leonard Sweet
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
— Les Brown