Patient Quotes

Adversity is test of faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Touched by an act of kindness, be kind to others.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But these institutions had been dominated by the discredited Freudian fantasy that sexual abuse doesn’t happen - that it is our illicit desires that drive us crazy. A century ago, Freud recoiled from his own theory of the sexual seduction of children and projected the problem back into the patient. He claimed in his Aetiology of Hysteria that clients, typically women, were describing their fantasies, not facts, not ‘real events’. P3

Beatrix Campbell

As good surgical doctor works on a patient in the theater with varied kinds of surgical instruments, so a true leader also needs a clean bag of leadership characters that vary from task to task. One-way leaders are obvious failures!

Israelmore Ayivor

There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience with hard work is the one that moves mountains. Patience in idleness moves nothing, not even cobwebs.

Israelmore Ayivor

There is no need to rush in life. Just with one word at a time, your sweet life history will be written boldly in capitals and highlighted for easy access. Be sure you are passing the test of patience!

Israelmore Ayivor

No matter how long the journey takes, don’t give up. Keep travelling onwards.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is the length of the journey that ripens the joy of the outcome.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

You have no control of uncertainties! You can only control your life and your reaction to any event. May you find grace for patient endurance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

All this waiting.Waiting for the rain to stop. Waiting in traffic. Waiting for the bill. Waiting at the airport for an old friend.Waiting to depart. Then, there’s the big waiting: waiting to grow up. Waiting for love. Waiting to show youryour parents that when you have kids you’ll be different. Waiting to retire. Waiting for death. Why do we think waitingis the antithesis of lifewhen it is almostall of it?

When we have graciously endured every adversity, we become like a shining diamond.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God never fails. No matter how long it takes, the promise will be fulfilled.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Before you examine the body of a patient, be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, you will also come to know his body.

New dreams are like new wines; they grow sweeter over time. With patience, you will be able to climb your spiritual, financial, academic, marital and social ladders in Jesus' name!

Israelmore Ayivor

Every sacred marriage will survive all times with great love and patient commitment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In times of adversity and affliction, may you wait for the Lord to rescue and deliver you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Savour on the moment, while still waiting for sacred time.

Lailah Gifty Akita