Quotes about Patience

we do not have to understand God's ways, or the suffering and brokenness and pain that sooner or later come to us all. But we do have to know in the very depths of our being that the ultimate end of the story, no matter how many aeons it takes, is going to be all right.

You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don't let that concern you. It's your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite quietly, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.

We tend, today, to want to have a road map of exactly where we are going. We want to know whether or not we have succeeded in everything we do. It's all right to want to know—we wouldn't be human if we didn't—but we also have to understand that a lot of the time we aren't going to know.

No matter how low the sun sets, the time is coming when it will surely rise.

Today's seeds are tomorrow's harvests.

Present tears water the gardens of future blessings.

Today's tears sweep the road to tomorrow's blessings.

When you pray for a rainbow you pray for rain too.

Perfectionists are patient, the diligent are persevering, and the relentless are successful.

As the sun hides behind clouds, success hides behind trouble.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Any seed that is planted by God bears fruit even before it touches the ground.