John Flavel Quotes

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

Possess your soul with patience.

The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena

He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!