91 Quotes About Patience

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honor, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pity on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome himself that nothing can conquer him.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.

That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car to crush your soul into the dust, may henceforth be a glorious chariot to carry you to the heights of heavenly patience and long-suffering.

No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.

It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.

He who bears failure with patience is as much of a philosopher as he who succeeds; for to put up with the world needs as much wisdom as to control it.

The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.

The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.

Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.

If I have made any improvement in the sciences, it is owing more to patient attention than to anything beside.

Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.

Be deaf to the quarrelsome, blind to the scorner and dumb to the inquisitive.

Appearances can be deceptive. The fact that we cannot see what God is doing does not mean that He is doing nothing. The Lord has His own timetable. It is we who must learn to adjust to it, not vice versa. When God's time comes nothing will stand in His way. We can therefore wait for Him with this happy confidence: "As for God, His way is perfect" (2 Samuel 22:31).

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension.

Let's help people get on board with what God wants to give them, but what we don't want is the process. Everyone wants the product.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

Abused patience turns to fury.

A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.

There is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany the gift of healing and that is longsuffering.

Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He does. If you cannot hear His whisper, wait till you do. Take care of running before you are sent. Keep your wills in equipoise till God's hand gives the impulse and direction.

A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.

Our patience is demonstrated most clearly when we settle ourselves and focus on what we can do while we wait.

There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.

Great things are not accomplished by idle dreams, but by years of patient study.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.

Quite honestly, most people are quick to "write someone off." But our God is a God of the second chance. Learn from One who is patient with you, and you'll learn to be patient with others.

It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.