Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.

Patience, increasing patience

Whatever you're doing, you must have patience.

Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

Have patience, and endure

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Possess your soul with patience.

Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.

Patience is moral elasticity.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.

Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.

If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

Patience means self-suffering.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

Patience obtains everything.

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