"Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us." ~Max Lucado
"If any are inclined to despond, because they do not have such patience, let them be of good courage. It is in the course of our feeble and very imperfect waiting that God Himself, by His hidden power, strengthens us and works out in us the patience of the saints, the patience of Christ Himself." ~Andrew Murray
"If you find patience hard to give, you might ask the same question. How infiltrated are you with God's patience? You've heard about it. Read about it. Perhaps underlined Bible passages regarding it. But have you received it? The proof is in your patience. Patience deeply received results in patience freely offered." ~Max Lucado
"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
"Impatience imprisons the soul. For that reason, our God is quick to help us avoid it. He does more than demand patience from us; he offers it to us. Patience is a fruit of his Spirit. It hangs from the tree of Galatians 5:22: "the Spirit produces the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience." Have you asked God to give you some fruit? Well I did once, but...But what? Did you, h'm, grow impatienct? Ask him again and again and again. He won't grow impatient with your pleading, and you will receive patience in your praying." ~Max Lucado
"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
"And while you're praying, ask for understanding. "Patient people have great understanding" (Prov. 14:29). Could it be your impatience stems from a lack of understanding?" ~Max Lucado
"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
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." ~Victor Hugo
"To wait open-endedly is an enormously radical attitude toward life. So is to trust that something will happen to us that is far beyond our imaginings. So, too, is giving up control over our future and letting God define our life, trusting that God moulds us according to God's love and not according to our fear. The spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, trusting that new things will happen to us, new things that are far beyond our own imagination, fantasy, or prediction. That, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control." ~Henri J.M. Nouwen
"I will charge my sould to believe and wait for Him, and will follow His providence, and not go before it, nor stay behind it." ~Samuel Rutherford
"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast, hold out. Patience is genius." ~George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
"Cast not away your confidence because God defers his performances. That which does not come in your time will be hastened in his time, which is always the more convenient season. God will work when he pleases, how he pleases, and by what means he pleases. He is not bound to keep our time, but he will perform his word, honour our faith, and reward them that diligently seek him." ~Matthew Henry
"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 fulfilment." ~Rick Joyner
"The best testimony that Stephen bore was his last: not when preaching and working miracles, but when he pleaded for his persecutors; for then he most resembled the Lord Jesus in patience, forgiveness and love." ~Robert C. Chapman
"A lot of the road to heaven has to be taken at thirty miles per hour." ~Evelyn Underhill
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openess, and the willingness to remain vulnerable." ~Joseph Addison
