Quotes about Patience

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

Understanding is the reward of faith.

For by hope we are saved; but hope that is seen, is not hope.

And now, Lord, these things are passed by, and time hath assuaged my wound.

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

On the words of Ps. 21:3: "O My God, I shall cry day by day, and Thou wilt not hear".

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.