Seeing that my last post was on hope, I thought it would be somewhat fitting to compose a post on patience, as patience can often times be connected to hope.

I am a fairly patient person, except when it comes to myself. When it comes to personal matters, I want answers immediately, I tend to get antsy quickly, and I doubt what it is I'm waiting for. In my defense, in my 20 years of life experience I've witnessed that patience is not a common human quality. In fact, patience, as many important things in life, has to be worked toward.

Today in my sort of "informal quiet time" I decided to focus on patience. In my pursuit, I found several notable quotes and verses. I will try to use restraint and only share a handful with you:

Quotes:

"Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith."
- Adel Bestavros

"To lose patience is to lose the battle."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water.
Be still and allow the mud to settle."
- Lao Tzu

"All fruits do not ripen in one season."
- Laurie Junot

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when
you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
- Victor Hugo

"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going
when the going is hard and slow - that is patience.”

"The secret of patience is doing something else in the meanwhile."

Verse:

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

-Romans 5:3-5