As we patiently follow the Savior, He will bless us beyond our own capacity to become what He wants us to be.
Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
Bear patiently with a rival.
Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious than the petty actions of others that tend to irritate us! God calls us to graciously bear with the weaknesses of others, tolerating them and forgiving them even as He has forgiven us.
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.
It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.
Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.
She would allow him to comfort her. And perhaps, someday, she would listen patiently if a dark, dreary night found him well in his cups and he drunkenly confessed to still feeling scores of wounds that weren’t his own, but those of men under his command.
Every man has a weakness," he patiently explained. "I'll find theirs, I promise you. " "Every man?" "Yes," he answered emphatically. His hand moved to the back of her neck. Twisting her curls around his fist, he jerked her head back. His face loomed over hers, his breath warm and sweet as he stared down into her eyes. "What is your weakness, Brodick?" she asked. "You.
Whenever Allah gives a blessing to a servant, and then takes it back from him, and the servant patiently endures his loss, then He rewards him with a blessing which is better than the one which He took back.
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We’ve got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we’ve chosen.
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.
We must patiently practice every day.
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.
But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254
I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.