Patience

Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

- John Ruskin, p. 443.



Therefore, let us be patient, patient; and let God our Father teach His own lesson, His own way. Let us try to learn it well and quickly; but do not let us fancy that He will ring the school-bell, and send us to play before our lesson is learnt.

- Charles Kingsley, p. 443.



Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul — they lose nothing who gain Christ.

- Samuel Rutherford, p. 444.

Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?— when the maternal lap of everlasting Love shall be opened to us, and the full peace of God breathe around us from the palmy summits of Eden.

- Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher, p. 613.



When I am about my work, sometimes called unexpectedly and suddenly from one thing to another, I whisper in my heart, " Lord, help me to be patient, help me to remember, and help me to be faithful. Lord, enable me to do all for Christ's sake, and to go forward, leaning on the bosom of His infinite grace."

-- Mary Lyon, p. 444.



We are waiting, Master, waiting,

Wayworn, pressed with toils and strife;

Waiting, hoping, watching, praying,

Till we reach the gates of life.

-- Ray Palmer, p. 613.





The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.
- Charles Spurgeon, p. 442. 


 

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
- Thomas à Kempis, p. 442. 


 


Patience! why, it is the soul of peace; of all the virtues it is nearest kin to heaven; it makes men look like gods. The best of men that ever wore earth about Him was a Sufferer,— a soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; the first true gentleman that ever breathed.

- Thomas Decker, p. 443.




Patience is the ballast of the soul that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms.

- Bishop Hopkins, p. 442.

“All truth is one in this light: may science and religion endeavor here for the steady evolution of mankind from darkness to light, from narrowness to broadmindedness, from prejudice to tolerance. It is the voice of life which calls us to come and learn.”

— Inscription on bell in Hayes Hall Bell Tower at SUNY Buffalo Cited by Clifford Stoll in his TED talk from February 2006,





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