Quotes about Patience
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
— Peter Marshall
Lastly, it is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again ...7
— Peter Marshall
By failing to let others be themselves before God and move at their own pace, we inevitably project onto them our own discomfort with their choice to live life differently than we do.
— Peter Scazzero
We make choices to trust God, to wait on God, to obey God, to stick with God, to remain faithful when everything in us wants to quit and run.
— Peter Scazzero
Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD" (Psalm 27:14)?
— Peter Scazzero
Blessed is he who expects nothing," said Francis of Assisi, "for he shall enjoy everything.
— Peter Scazzero
most of our human problems come because we don't know how to sit still in our room for an hour. — Leighton Ford
— Peter Scazzero
be still, and know that [he is] God" (Psalm 46:10)
— Peter Scazzero
God's plans and purposes for us are good, even when our circumstances are far from good.
— Peter Scazzero
As the wise, old Abbot Moses said when a brother came to him for a good word, "Go, sit in your cell [a monk's room], and your cell will teach you everything.
— Peter Scazzero
Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
— Philip Yancey
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
— Phillips Brooks