Do you struggle with impatience? Many of us are impulsive, wanting results right now! The saints are people who persevered and patiently waited for God’s help during good times and bad times.
The following quotes will help us to reflect before acting in small and big events of our lives.
1. Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is ‘timing’. It waits on the right time to act for the right principles and in the right way.
Ven. Fullton Sheen
2. Have patience with all things, but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes, with your value as a human being.
3. The reward of patience is patience.
4. Let us be glad and bear with patience everything the world throws at us, secure in the knowledge that it is then that we are most in the mind of God.
5. The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work, with all our strength.
St. Peter Damian
6. It is patience that reveals every grace to you and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised to them.
St. Pachomius the Great
7. Be not perplexed. Be not afraid. Everything passes. God does not change. Patience wins all things. He who has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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8. The wicked exist in the wotld either to be converted or that through them the good man exercise patience.
9. Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
10. What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
St. France de Sales
11. Be patient because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul, so they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.
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12. We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.
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13. There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.
14. For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research. To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting.
15. O Loving Jesus, increase my patience according as my sufferngs increase.
16. There is no sin or wrong that gives man a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
17. When the night is darkest and thy burden feel too heavy,, hold on to patience, for the dawn is surely coming soon.
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18. Be humble and patient, and the Lord Jesus will give you the will and the means.
19. As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are hmiliations the path that leads to humility.
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20. Do not seek to escape your cross too quickly, for it is through the patient carrying of it that we find true grace.
21. Let your patience be a shield against the arrows of despair that seek to pierce the heart and the faithful believer.
22. Lord, give me patience in tribulation.
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23. Charity is the bond which unites brothers, the cement of peace, the cross beam which gives solidity to unity…Only take patience from it, however, and it will remain desolate; take from it the sap of suffering and of resignation and it will lose its roots and its vigor.
24. Fight all error, but do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. Harshness will damage your own soul and spoil the best cause.
25. Gracious and Holy Father, give us the wisdom to discover You, the intelligence to understand You, the patience to wait for You, a heart to meditate upon You, Eyes to Behold You, a life to proclaim You, through the power of the Spirit of Jesus, Our Lord. Amen
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