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Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent. -- Billy Graham
Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates. -- Bill Brandt
I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent. -- Amanda Donohoe
For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve. -- Deborah Eisenberg
I make a mean pecan pie, and I have a great recipe for pralines - also using pecans. Pralines take a lot of patience, and patience is a must in the duck blind as well as in the kitchen. Good things come to those who wait. -- Phil Robertson
The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards. -- Charles Stanley
I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting. -- Joyce Meyer
Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for. -- Lauren Willig
Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting. -- Joyce Meyer
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting. -- Robert Falcon Scott
Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting. -- Joyce Meyer
I can have patience for anything, but it's waiting for love, that kills me a little each day. -- Anthony Liccione
Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams. -- Ray A. Davis
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter. -- Susan M. Watkins
What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It's awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up. -- Ivo Andric
The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes. -- Charles Spurgeon
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right. -- Joseph Bruchac
If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something." -- Max Lucado
You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit. -- Rachel Kushner
Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking. -- Gary Paulsen

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