Quotes about Patience

Becoming one — in the deepest, Most intense sense — takes time. It takes at least the span of a decade for the sense of intimacy to really display itself in the marriage relationship.

2 Thessalonians 3:5: "May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and Christ's perseverance.

We are told to seek first the kingdom of God, not seek first marriage.

What if your husband's faults are God's tools to shape you? What if the very thing that most bugs you about your man constitutes God's plan to teach you something new? Are you willing to accept that your marriage makeover — the process of moving a man — might begin with you?

The best remedy for anger is delay.

Jesus said the standard was seventy times seven. I read somewhere that Dietrich Bonhoeffer explained it this way: "As long as you are counting, you haven't forgiven once." In

Technology, Andrew says, makes us far too accessible to the demands and pressures of the moment. 'Our first priority should be listening in patience and silence for the voice of God.

Uncle Hoppy only laughed. "Just you wait," he said. "Before we get home we will meet the man who was supposed to be in that chair. And when we do, his heart will be prepared. Time and place are our own limitations, Andy; we mustn't impose them upon God." And

That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.

Why are we worried!" Rolf said suddenly. "This is God's work. He'll make a way for us.

God knoweth best what is needful for us, and all that He does is for our good. If we knew how much He loves us, we should always be ready to receive equally and with indifference from His Hand the sweet and the bitter: all would please that came from Him. The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, except when we see them in the wrong light.

he expected after the pleasant days GOD had given him, he should have his turn of pain and suffering; but that he was not uneasy about it, knowing very well, that as he could do nothing of himself, GOD would not fail to give him the strength to bear it.