Quotes about Patience

A minute to Dolly's like a lifetime to everybody else.

The way I see it, if you want a rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

As I ponder this, I don't believe my greeting committee said, "Oh no, he doesn't get to stay." They're still there at the gate. They're waiting. For them, time is not passing. Everything is in the eternal now—even if I can't put that into words. Even if ten more years pass, or thirty, in heaven it will be only an instant before I'm back there again.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Perhaps this is what it was all about. Leaning on God when life made no sense, as well as when the answers seem clear.

Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you.

In the end, an impatience with the Word of God can be explained only by an impatience with God. We all, both individually and congregationally, neglect God's Word to our own ruin.