Quotes about Patience

Success doesn't happen overnight. It takes soul-searching, hard work, and many years to achieve it.

Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.

When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.

The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word.

Neglecting to ask God's counsel, neglecting to seek God's timing, you step in to *handle* things. And by and by, you've got a mess on your hands.

when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.

If you aren't vigilant, if you aren't daily humbling yourself before Him, seeking His face, discerning His timing, operating under the Spirit's control, you may push and shove and force your way prematurely into that place where God wanted you, but you will not have arrived in His own time.

We don't like waiting, but that's when God does some of His best work on our souls.

You may have had big-time plans in your life-major league dreams that haven't panned out. You were going to write a best-selling book, but the opportunities just haven't come along. Are you willing to write for your church newsletter?

Moses, you see, had walked with God long enough to know that even though the Lord's directions might seem foolish, he wasn't to question them.

The silence of God's voice will make you wonder if He is even there. And the absence of God's presence will make you wonder if He even cares. He is. And He does.

The offering had been meager, the miracle dramatic, and the provision abundant, but the lesson was not yet complete.