Quotes about Patience

Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired.

When we wait on the Lord, we invite Him to root out the dissonance in a divided heart and bring to us the integrity of full surrender to His will. In that we experience His strength.

Tell them," God said through Isaiah, "hard times are coming, but don't give up—now or ever. Don't let them underestimate My power to reorder the universe. Tell them to keep trusting Me and living the way I told them to in spite of what's coming.

When we see the faults of others, we are to forgive and forbear in humility.

You had decided to take the action, whatever it was."   "Yes."   "Yes. It involved perhaps a period of inaction."   "Of comparative inaction—yes."   "Of suspense, shall we say?"   "Yes—of suspense, certainly."   "Possibly

It will come back to you," cried the Rector, feverishly. "It will come back. Half an hour with the handbells——

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.

It takes but a moment to make a convert; it takes a lifetime to manufacture a saint.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

I remember talking to comedian Jimmy Pardo about his experience waiting to hear about his own pilot, and we both agreed on one thing: When you can't control your showbiz fate, you can at least control the amount of ice cream you're eating. And if you're like us, it was a lot.