Axl Rose Quotes

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.

Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.

Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never been easy. Ask Joseph. Or, better yet, ask Jesus. He knows better than anyone the cost of hanging on a tree.

Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.

Hope is a slow business.

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.

Your patience will be rewarded.

If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown.

Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

What more can we require? Nothing but time.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The principle part of faith is patience.

Jesus is the inspiration for anyone to go the distance.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

'Work and wait', 'work and wait' is what God says to us in creation.

It's all about persevering. You know you're going to be tested. If you keep your eyes fixed on Christ, He's going to reward you.

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.