Top 42 Quotes About Prayer And Patience
#1. Some wounds broke open and had to be stitched closed with patience and prayer.
Francine Rivers
#2. If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#4. The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!
Saint Francis De Sales
#5. Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.
Samuel I. Prime
#6. Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.
Elisabeth Elliot
#7. Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.
H.W. Brands
#8. If you've ever tried meditation and didn't stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the interim, you may have developed the discipline of mind or the patience you were short on before. Let these qualities aid your practice. (173)
Victoria Moran
#9. God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
Watchman Nee
#10. Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise!
Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
#11. And seek assistance through patience and prayer, and most surely it is a hard thing except for the humble ones,
Anonymous
#12. The answer to our prayer may be coming, although we may not discern its approach. A seed that is underground during winter, although hidden and seemingly dead and lost, is nevertheless taking root for a later spring and harvest.
Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
#13. Winning her would be like coaxing a butterfly to land on his hand. Patience, gentleness, and perhaps a prayer or two would be required.
Mary Jo Putney
#14. With a twinkle in his eyes, my friend says that his favorite prayer is, Lord, give me patience - and give it to me right now!
Billy Graham
#15. Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.
Shannon L. Alder
#16. Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;
Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear;
To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.
George Croly
#18. Success is easy with just a prayer, encouragement and patience!
Sonia Dea Octalia
#19. Patience is the path to opportunities. We gain patience through prayer and meditation. Within that vein, we never consider ourselves having failed.
Ellen J. Barrier
#20. Joy and patience are far above our strength ... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint ... Prayer and perseverance are necessary in our daily conflicts. The best remedy to the weariness is diligence in prayer.
John Calvin
#21. We must unceasingly ask for [perseverance] by making use of the means which God has taught us for obtaining it: prayer, fasting, almsgiving, frequenting the sacraments, association with good companions, and hearing and reading Holy Scripture.
Francis De Sales
#22. God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
Richard Cecil
#24. Sometimes, just be. Do not think or worry, do not get angry under stress. Just pray and keep your faith in the Lord. Keep patience and see how well things will work out for you!
Sanchita Pandey
#25. Be patient in prayer, even though you should do nothing all your life but wait in patience, with a heart humbled, abandoned, resigned, and content for the return of your Beloved. Oh, excellent prayer! How it moves the heart of God, and obliges Him to return more than anything else!
Madame Guyon
#26. Whilst people wholeheartedly talk wrongly about you openly, wholeheartedly talk rightly to God in silence and in faith! He knows everything! He sees everything! He hears everything! And He has the very right answer to everything!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#27. Human mobile devices that may come in handy and can be used anywhere include: prayer, meditation, a good attitude, compassion, kindness, humor, laughter, patience, love and a smile. Customize to personal style and taste.
Jody Watley
#29. Christ sometimes delays His help so He may test our faith and energize our prayers. Our boat may be tossed by the waves while he continues to sleep, but He will awake before it sinks.
Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
#30. Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#31. No question, no problem, no concern, is too big or too small for God to handle!
Elizabeth George
#32. So take a breath and find what is unsolved in your heart.
Breathe in patience, breathe in love.
Love yourself bountiful.
And send that love out to others.
When you send love out from the bountifulness of your own love, it reaches other people.
This love is the deepest power of prayer.
John O. Donohue
#33. PRAYER O God, our merciful Father in heaven, fill our hearts with patience under the cross, strengthen our faith, and so govern us that we give offense to none, neither in word nor deed. Grant us also this day all that we need for body and soul. Amen.
Martin Luther
#35. I've been praying to Jesus and the Holy Ghost for patience and I have also mentioned that it would help if I did not have frizzy hair.
Margaret Sartor
#36. What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.
Mary Baker Eddy
#37. If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
Debra Winger
#38. You should always say your prayers with tireless diligence, as the Apostle directs, saying: 'Continue in prayer and watch in the same' (Col. 4:2). For humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy.
Lorenzo Scupoli
#39. We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great patience and resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence.
Saint John Chrysostom
#40. His mother's face expressed a prayer for patience.
L.P. Hartley
#41. Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.
Voltaire
#42. We will never be prompted by the Holy Ghost to do something we cannot do. It may require extraordinary effort and much time, patience, prayer, and obedience, but we can do it.
Richard G. Scott
