Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

The time to right the wrong ticks with precission.

[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing.

The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God, and Christ is evidence for the forgiveness of God. It is when we...

Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.

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...

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Nature never rushes, yet everything gets done.

I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber.

Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it...

Christ sometimes delays His help so He may test our faith and energize our prayers. Our boat may be tossed by the waves while he continues to sleep, but He will awake before it sinks.

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...

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

The hardest thing about “everything happens for a reason” is waiting for that reason to show up.

I’m saying that I can wait. For now. But when things get back to normal—assuming that ever happens—I want my shot. We can make each other happy, Faythe. I know it. And I’m done walking...

Crushed again!

Why is patience so important?””Because it makes us pay attention.

It takes time, patience, productivity and persistence to ‘pop the oil’; just keep digging. Worthy investments take time to show positive returns.

Patience… Is the last hope any individual can have during sabbatical. When the expected doesn’t happen… Patience, expect the unexpected. When you are true to something that you have done; the results will come. Better...

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.We should like to skip the intermediate stages.We are impatient of being on the way...

MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.M is for Moses, Who slew the Egyptian. As sweet as a rose is The meekness of Moses. No monument shows his Post-mortem inscription,...

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than...

Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about. . .Catherine Weaver (Character), “Terminator: The...

The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public...

I think our patience has been the big key for us this year. Compared to last year and some other years, our patience has really, really impressed me this season. We’re willing to move the...

I wrote you a love letter, and I sent it snail mail. Love is forever, and that’s about how long it’ll take to get to you.

Waiting is not wasting. It is a strategy for champing for greater things.

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we...

I find my patience tried by parties who have spoken of a general amnesty to allow up to 100,000 individuals to stay, but then don’t want these people even when the numbers are substantially less....

Relent not in thy effort to do, when you have to do; for in delay lies mediocrity and in giving up lies perishing; but when the grounds are not ready for landing, hover purposefully.

The Chinese ideograph for forbearance is a heart with a sword dangling over it, another instance of language’s brilliant way of showing us something surprising and important fossilized inside the meaning of a word. Vulnerability...

Be worthy love, and love will come.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.

Our ability to forgive is a direct measure of our hope;Our patience is a measure of our humility;And most importantly: Our ability to listen with patience and understanding is the measure of our love; Because...

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

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

In Patience there is GOD

If a man, having lashed two hulls together, is crossing a river, and an empty boat happens along and bumps into him, no matter how hot-tempered the man may be, he will not get angry....

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

Whatever you do, it will be a path. Life does not work like a light switch – on/off, fat/skinny, miserable/happy, crazy/sane. All things take time, patience, and practice. Anyone who tells you different is profiting...

The person who floated the axe with a stick is in charge of my affairs, so marvel not.

Be the patience you seek

Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don’t drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor’s yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep...

God does not need a year to change your life. He can do it in a heartbeat.

Tempus Fugit

The common man prays, ‘I want a cookie right now!’ And God responds, ‘If you’d listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. Be patient and let...

Quick gratification of desires, often lead to low stratifications in life