Quotes about Patience

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

End the habit of despising things that are not within your power

Friends, wait for God. When He gives the signal, and releases you from this service, then depart to Him. But for the present, endure to dwell in the place wherein He has assigned you your post. Short indeed is the time of your habitation, and easy to those that are thus minded. What tyrant, what robber, what tribunals have any terrors for those who thus esteem the body and all that belong to it as of no account?

want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.

If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.

He know where He wants to take me, and He'll get me there, in spite of myself.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

Whatever happens happens. If something happens, something happens. But I believe in God, and I pray every day.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

I prayed about it consistently - that God would direct me in the right path and that, when it would happen, I would know that I'm in the right place.