Quotes about Patience

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

We have what we seek. We don't have to rush after it. It was there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us.

If you find God with great ease, perhaps it is not God you have found.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves.

We are united to Him in darkness, because we have to hope.

We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human and visible means, nor rests in any visible end. He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.

Bonum est praestolari cum silentio salutare Dei.

Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this.

Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence. Indeed, spiritual intelligence itself depends on the fortitude and patience with which we sacrifice ourselves for the truth, as it is communicated to our lives concretely in the providential will of God

There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he had no plans at all.

One bird sits still Watching the work of God: