Quotes about Patience
Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.
- Elisabeth Elliot
God has promised to supply our needs. What we don't have now we don't need now.
- Elisabeth Elliot
My heart was saying, Lord, take away this longing, or give me that for which I long. The Lord was answering, I must teach you to long for something better.
- Elisabeth Elliot
The work of God is done on God's timetable. His answers to our prayers come always in time--His time. His thoughts are far higher than ours, His wisdom past understanding.
- Elisabeth Elliot
I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.
- Elisabeth Elliot
He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are merciful. His meaning is always love.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.
- Elisabeth Elliot
God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Some of God's greatest mercies are in his refusals. He says no in order that he may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes.
- Elisabeth Elliot
He is not all we would ask for (if we were honest), but it is precisely when we do not have what we would ask for, and only then, that we can clearly perceive His all-sufficiency.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Steadfastness, that is holding on; Patience, that is holding back; Expectancy, that is holding the face up; Obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; Listening, that is holding quiet and still as to hear.
- Elisabeth Elliot