Quotes about Patience

It is a grace to be able to hold onto someone who runs at life when you can only imagine walking.

Lord, thank You," Elizabeth whispered. "Thank You for Your mercy and Your goodness. Thank You for answering. And help me focus on the things I can see You doing instead of the things I can't see.

So do Your work, do it in Your timing, and help us to be faithful while You work.

You take heart now. Be encouraged. The bad times are really the good times in disguise. And I'm going to get down on my knees tonight and ask God to break through. God is walking with you

Lord, You know that Tony is not the man I want him to be. He's not the man You want him to be. So I'm putting him right at the top here.

Pray and wait. That's what she had done in the past few weeks. And in the waiting came the strengthening of the muscles of faith. It was a whole-faith workout to wait and allow God to do what He wanted to do. As Clara said, it was time to just get out of His way.

Don't expect any miracles, I can only come in and do what I can and give my best. I can't work miracles but I will try to.

We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more godlike, that we do not become discouraged and lose hope.

Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes. Fervently, for a year she had prayed. Although somewhat discouraged, she was not without hope. To have something as wonderful as that would take a long, long time.

God's generosity is nowhere better seen than in the gift of patience.

Exactly the way old folks said: not when you call Him; not when you want Him; only when you need Him and right on time.

There's a line between revision and fretting, just working it to death." —Toni Morrison