patience

Take one day at a time, nurture each day, and the hurt will be yesterdays past.

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know.

Best to introduce yourself to patience now, so that it might find you when you call upon it later.

Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.

To achieve the impossible, you must attempt the absurd

We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the distance between us and the object of desire that fills in the space in between with the blue of longing. I wonder sometimes whether with a slight adjustment of perspective it could be cherished as a sensation in its own terms, since it is as inherent to the human condition as blue is to distance?

In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow that yesterday would have killed had I had my way.

In between your failure-treeAnd your triumph-tree,The tree that is growingIs known as your patience-tree.

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you__e fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

The end always doesn't justify the means you used to reach there.

The Advantages of Crises in a relationship is to showcase the REAL Person in the relationship.

You. You are standing in your own way. And that means whatever it is scares you. It won't forever...but take your time. Nothing good was ever rushed.

The acts of daily forbearance, the headache, or toothache, or heavy cold; the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass...all of these sufferings, small as they are, if accepted lovingly, are most pleasing to God's Goodness.

[S]how yourself a Christian, by suffering without murmuring; - in patience possess your soul: they lose nothing who gain Christ.

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

As far as we are concerned we do not wish to stand in anyone__ way, nor do we wish to bring discredit on the ministry God has given us. Indeed we want to prove ourselves genuine ministers of God whatever we have to go through__atient endurance of troubles or even disasters, being flogged or imprisoned; being mobbed, having to work like slaves, having to go without food or sleep. All this we want to meet with sincerity, with insight and patience; by sheer kindness and the Holy Spirit; with genuine love, speaking the plain truth, and living by the power of God. Our sole defence, our only weapon, is a life of integrity, whether we meet honour or dishonour, praise or blame. Called __mpostors_ we must be true, called __obodies_ we must be in the public eye. Never far from death, yet here we are alive, always __oing through it_ yet never __oing under_. We know sorrow, yet our joy is inextinguishable. We have __othing to bless ourselves with_ yet we bless many others with true riches. We are penniless, and yet in reality we have everything worth having.

And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, 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.