Quotes about Patience

There is such a danger of our being more occupied with the things that are coming than with Him who is to come.

Step by step we shall get to see how truly this promise-precept

There is no possibility of salvation but in and by the birth of the meek, humble, patient, resigned Lamb of God in our souls.

How good is known only by those who prove it in waiting on Him. How good none can fully tell but those who have proved Him to the utmost. My soul, wait thou only upon God!

Let not the interest of religious thoughts and exercises deceive you; they very often take the place of waiting upon God.

The one true way of dying to self is the way of patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God.

All the exercises of the spiritual life, our reading and praying, our willing and doing, have their very great value. But they can go no farther than this, that they point the way and prepare us in humility to look to and to depend alone upon God Himself, and in patience to await His good time and mercy. The waiting is to teach us our absolute dependence upon God's might working, and to make us in perfect patience place ourselves at His disposal.

God unceasingly gives and works; His child unceasingly waits and receives — this is the blessed life.

As my guarantee, He won it for me by His consent to have His petition unanswered.

The great mistake here is that God's children do not really believe that it is possible to know God's will. Or if they believe this, they do not take the time and trouble to discover it. What we need is to see clearly how the Father leads His waiting, teachable child to know that his petition is according to His will.

We want to wait on Him and put away our experiences, however blessed they have been; our concept of truth, however sound and scriptural we think it is; our plans, however needful and suitable they appear.

In the light of His example, we can prove that suffering is to God's child the token of the Father's love and the channel of His richest blessing.