Inspirational Quotes on Patience

“Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!”

“Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.”

“There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.”

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

“Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.”

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

“Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.”

“Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.”

“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.”

“It takes two wings for an eagle to fly. If an eagle were to try to fly with just one wing he would only spin around in circles on the ground. The same is true with many people who are trying to soar spiritually on their faith, but have not added patience. These just keep going around in circles, getting more and more frustrated and kicking up a lot of dust. Any truth that we teach without this counter balancing truth will lead us to frustration, not fulfillment.”

“God's delays are not God's denials.”

“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”

“Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.”

“God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.”

“Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.”

“Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?”