Patience Quotes - Page 2

God is an on time God.You may not see what's ahead of you, but with the patience and guidance from God, He will give you the desires of your heart.

Deborah N. Kabwang

Lust likes to rush, while love hates to wait.

Anthony Liccione

It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.

Happiness, honor, and great estate,For those who patiently work and wait.

John Townsend Trowbridge

Annihilate the enemy with acts of kindness only you can afford.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in mind, we would be wise to look on our imperfect environment as a teacher rather than an antagonist. It constantly shows us that we need to be patient on an ongoing basis, not just every now and then, if we´re going to realize true inner peace, happiness, and fulfillment.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Learn a little patience. You never know what might be around the corner.

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

Patience is learned through waiting

E'yen A. Gardner

We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.

It is a kind of love, is it not?How the cup holds the tea,How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare,How the floor receives the bottoms of shoesOr toes. How soles of feet knowWhere they're supposed to be.I've been thinking about the patienceOf ordinary things, how clothesWait respectfully in closetsAnd soap dries quietly in the dish,And towels drink the wetFrom the skin of the back.And the lovely repetition of stairs.And what is more generous than a window?

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

When you get mad, it's the time you lose

There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act.

Margaret Bottome

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Michel de Montaigne

I could have married again while I was still young. A congregation likes to have a married minister, and I was introduced to every niece and sister-in-law in a hundred miles. In retrospect, I'm very grateful for whatever reluctance it was that kept me alone until your mother came. Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what I was waiting for.

Marilynne Robinson

If we walk steadily and faithfully...God will lift us up to greater things.

Francis de Sales

Everybody finds themselves sometimes deficient in what they need, and put to inconvenience ... the richest people may easily be without something they want, and that is practically to suffer poverty. Accept such occurrences cheerfully, rejoice in them, bear them willingly.

Francis de Sales

Real patience is not the same as waiting impatiently for something for a long time. Patience is having patience with patience.

Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created.

Every moment a beginning. Every moment an end.

Take patiently the petty annoyances, the trifling discomforts, the unimportant losses which come upon all of us daily; for by means of these little matters, lovingly and freely accepted, you will give Him your whole heart, and win His.

Francis de Sales

God's favor floats as it were over all this and finds joy in turning all those miseries to the greater profit of those who love Him. From toil He makes patience spring forth.

Francis de Sales

When you are Patient you can be Practical and rationale

M.Mnzava

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.

Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd.

I should learn patience, it's a shame there's no time for that.

Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.

Vinita Hampton Wright

You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to “clear the numberless ascensions”* in about two minutes.

Oswald Chambers

Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play but when the cards are shuffled, before the game even begins. How pointless is that?

Patience is the gift of possibility. Time is merely an illusion. People lack patience, which is why time becomes their enemy.

We are all tired of the stress.

K. Howard Joslin

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

Solomon ibn Gabirol

It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.

Laurens van der Post

if you don't like something change it and if you cannot change it ,change the way you you think about it.

Mary Engelbreit

The weight of wait.

Cameron Conaway

The feet-on-the-stove stance of this book is a deliberate attempt to cure myself, and anyone else who will listen, of the nasty habit of worrying the world to pieces like a terrier with a rag. What we are up to here is not the hasty shaking loose of a culinary result, but a patient rumination on cooking itself. There are more important things to do than hurry.

Robert Farrar Capon

It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know?

Time has its own secrets, so it is best to wait upon it untill it tells.

You mortal! You time-poor! Don’t waste your scarce time to be patient!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Chewing and barking do not make you a dog, you need the patience.

I travel North Pole to South Pole; just like patience, Long but still reachable.

kent Ian N. Cny

There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.

During the night we must wait for the light.

Francis de Sales

Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?

Francis de Sales

Patience from a Buddhist perspective is not a "wait and see" attitude, but rather one of "just be there"... Patience can also be based on not expecting anything.Think of patience as an act of being open to whatever comes your way. When you begin to solidify expectations, you get frustrated because they are not met in the way you had hoped... With no set idea of how something is supposed to be, it is hard to get stuck on things not happening in the time frame you desired. Instead, you are just being there, open to the possibilities of your life.

God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.

Thomas à Kempis

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

He would never exhort the faithful to persevere if he were not ready to give them the power to do so.

Francis de Sales

He will unfailingly be pleased with our patience and take note of our diligence and perseverance.

Francis de Sales

Be patient and one day you will be in Heaven, where there will be only peace and joy ... You will possess an enduring tranquility and rest.

Francis de Sales

Oppose vigorously any tendency to sadness ... You must persevere. By means of sorrow the enemy tries to make us weary of good works, but if he sees that we don't give them up and that being done in spite of his opposition they have become very meritorious, he will stop troubling us.

Francis de Sales

We must unceasingly ask for [perseverance] by making use of the means which God has taught us for obtaining it: prayer, fasting, almsgiving, frequenting the sacraments, association with good companions, and hearing and reading Holy Scripture.

Francis de Sales

People who pressure you usually deserve a “no". People who are patient with you usually deserve a “yes".

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Sammy Davis Jr.

Change is not always easy, but with patience and perseverance, we can find the good in change.

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