Patience is the companion of wisdom.
– Augustine
Patience | Wisdom
Some of your greatest blessings come with patience.
– Warren Wiersbe
Blessings | Patience
Those times when you feel like quitting can be times of great opportunity, for God uses your troubles to help you grow.
– Warren Wiersbe
Suffering | Patience
I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor’s door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.
– E.M. Bounds
Prayer | Patience
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
– Jeremy Taylor
Character | Impatience
We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Perseverance | Patience | Trials
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!
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Patience | Rest
What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them. We must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly
– A. W. Tozer
Struggles | Patience
Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.
– John Wesley
Humility | Patience
To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
– Helen Keller
Patience | Change | Freedom
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
– Helen Keller
Patience | Joy
In regard of God, patience is a submission to His sovereignty. To endure a trial, simply because we cannot avoid or resist it, is not Christian patience. But to humbly submit because it is the will of God to inflict the trial, to be silent because the sovereignty of God orders it – is true godly patience.
– Stephen Charnock
Trials | Patience
The Bible says the fruit of the spirit is longsuffering. I’ll tell you one thing about fruit: you will never see a fruit factory. Isn’t that right? You see a shirt factory, but you see a fruit orchard. You see, there is no fruit without life. You cannot manufacture patience. The fruit of the Spirit is patience.
– Adrian Rogers
Patience
There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.
– John Wesley
Patience | Meekness
There are no sins God’s people are more subject to than unbelief and impatience. They are ready either to faint through unbelief, or to fret through impatience.
– Thomas Watson
Unbelief | Impatience
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.
– Helen Keller
Patience
Do not be impatient for impatience is of the flesh. Do not try different methods because they are useful solely in helping the flesh. We must distrust the flesh entirely.
– Watchman Nee
Impatience | Humility
There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.
– Hudson Taylor
Missions | Patience
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.
– Francois Fenelon
Patience | Gentleness
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.
– Oswald Chambers
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?
– Thomas a Kempis
Patience | Humility
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Patience | Pain | Illness
Thy peace shall be in much patience.
– Thomas a Kempis
Peace | Patience
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.
– Isaac Watts
Patience
Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.
– Richard Cecil
Patience | Suffering
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.
– Sadhu Sundar Singh
God | Patience
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.
– Alexander MacLaren
Impatience
Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.
– Jerry Bridges
Patience
I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.
– Helen Keller
Patience | Work
If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.
– Isaac Newton
Adversity | Patience | Revenge
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
– Assorted Authors
Patience | Change
The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God’s timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him. So often when God’s timetable stretches into years we become discouraged and…want to give up or try to work something out on [our] own.
– Jerry Bridges
Impatience | Trust
There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. Temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. Death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence.
– Joseph Hall
Sin | Impatience | Hurt
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.
– Charles H. Brent
Prayer | Patience | Waiting
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.
– Thomas a Kempis
Faithful | Patience
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
– Augustine
Patience | Faithful | Unity
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
– Helen Keller
Patience
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
– Assorted Authors
Patience
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world-making the most of one’s best.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Patience | Self-pity
I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.
– John Calvin
Character | Struggles | Impatience
There is always a prepared place for a prepared person.
– Jack Hyles
Patience
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
– Thomas Aquinas
Patience
Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.
– Jeremy Taylor
Impatience
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew.
– Francis de Sales
Patience | Perseverance
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
– Helen Keller
Patience | Fire | Joy
Do daily and hourly your duty; do it patiently and thoroughly. Do it as it presents itself; do it at the moment, and let it be its own reward. Never mind whether it is known and acknowledged or not, but do not fail to do it.
– James H. Aughey
Patience | Service | Faithful
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
– Isaac Newton
Patience | Reasoning
Ultimately, all our complaints are directed against God.
– Woodrow Kroll
Impatience
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
– C.S. Lewis
Patience
Slight small injuries and they will become none at all.
– Thomas Fuller
Patience
At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.
– Thomas a Kempis
Patience | Joy
Those who wait for God are pilgrim souls that have no tie that will hold them when the definite command is issued; no prejudices that will paralyze their effort when in some strange coming of the light they are commanded to take a pathway entirely different to that which was theirs before; having no interests either temporal or eternal, either material or mental or spiritual, that will conflict with the will of God when that will is made known.
– G. Campbell Morgan
Patience | Waiting
Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.
– Thomas a Kempis
Patience
A Christian without patience is like a soldier without arms.
– Thomas Watson
Patience
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.
– Helen Keller
Patience
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
– G.K. Chesterton
Patience
Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.
– Charles Spurgeon
Patience
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.
– Thomas Adams
Patience
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
– Thomas Fuller
Patience | Suffering | Endurance
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
– Thomas a Kempis
Patience | Men
Christ bears with the saints’ imperfections; well may the saints one with another.
– William Gurnall
Patience
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.
– Amy Carmichael
Impatience
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.
– Hannah Whitall Smith
Suffering | Patience
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.
– Sinclair B. Ferguson
Patience
It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.
– E.M. Bounds
Prayer | Patience
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.
– James H. Aughey
Patience | Wisdom | Failure
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.
– Elisabeth Elliot
Patience
The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Patience
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.
– E.M. Bounds
Prayer | Piety | Patience
If I have made any improvement in the sciences, it is owing more to patient attention than to anything beside.
– Isaac Newton
Patience
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.
– A. B. Simpson
Patience
Be deaf to the quarrelsome, blind to the scorner and dumb to the inquisitive.
– James H. Aughey
Humility | Patience | Quarreling
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).
– Sinclair B. Ferguson
Patience
He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.
– William Gurnall
Mercy | Impatience
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.
– Cornelius Plantinga
Patience
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.
– Chip Ingram
Impatience
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.
– Richard Cecil
Prayer | Affliction | Patience
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
– Thomas Fuller
Patience | Passion
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
– Thomas Fuller
Patience
Abused patience turns to fury.
– Thomas Fuller
Patience | Anger
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.
– C.S. Lewis
Patience | Blessings
There is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany the gift of healing and that is longsuffering.
– Smith Wigglesworth
Patience
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.
– Alexander MacLaren
Impatience
Our patience is demonstrated most clearly when we settle ourselves and focus on what we can do while we wait.
– Crystal McDowell
Patience
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.
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Patience
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
– Peter Marshall
Patience | Discipline
Great things are not accomplished by idle dreams, but by years of patient study.
– James H. Aughey
Patience
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.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Patience | Providence
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.
– Woodrow Kroll
Patience
It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.
– Thomas Fuller
Patience