Quotes about Patience

When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

So the LORD said to Moses,

The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.

So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”

Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything.

“Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”

I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.

And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute can go to them.”

Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!”