If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.
Patience is that the heart does not feel anger towards that which is destined and that the mouth does not complain.
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience. . . [it is also] about the mind! It is about owning one's body. . . It is about believing that you are not you; you are everything. And everything is you.
I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.
Patience is the art of caring slowly.
I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.
Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.
Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end slavery.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.
It's not that I'm so smart.
Thy peace shall be in much patience.
I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel. " Novel-schmovel.
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it. ' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
I have very little patience with children.
Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.
The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.
I think attempting to make art is a utopian process in itself, definitely. Nothing I do is ever equal to the ideas in my head. You do the best you can, you do it with patience and love, and then you give up. The moment you give up is when you know the book is done.