Patience Quotes

The hardest virtue. Waiting, enduring, and trusting that things take the time they take.

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"Patience is the art of expecting without demanding."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Patience is the practice of trusting in timing larger than our own."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Patience is the quality of the strong."
Ibn Arabi
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"Patience is the virtue of those who truly love."
John of the Cross
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"Patience is the mark of a soul perfected in love."
John of the Cross
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"Patience is not sitting and waiting, but maintaining your grace while moving forward."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"The one who plants dates does not harvest dates."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"The greatest prayer is patience."
Teresa of Avila
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"Patience is not passive; it is the active choice to trust the process."
Teresa of Avila
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"Patience with others begins with patience with ourselves."
Teresa of Avila
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"Patience is not the absence of action, but right action at the right time."
Ibn Arabi
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"Patience is a noble virtue, with power over pain."
Julian of Norwich
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"God's patience with us is infinite and without end."
Julian of Norwich
"Patience is a virtue that has little to do with time."
Meister Eckhart
"The greatest prayer is patience."
Meister Eckhart
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"Patience is the soil in which all spiritual fruits are cultivated."
John of the Cross
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"Patience is not the ability to wait, but to keep a good attitude while waiting."
Hafiz
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"The Greed for fruit misses the flower."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror ever get polished?"
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
"Patience is not the absence of action, but right action in right time."
Meister Eckhart
"Patience is the art of waiting with hope and trust."
Meister Eckhart
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"Patience is the virtue that teaches us to wait upon God's perfect timing."
Teresa of Avila
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"God's patience with us surpasses all human understanding."
Julian of Norwich
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"Patience is the garden in which virtue grows."
Julian of Norwich
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"Patience is not passivity; it is the active understanding of necessity."
Spinoza
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"The wood that is green and moist will burn slowly and produce heat gradually."
John of the Cross
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"Patience is the foundation upon which all virtue is built."
John of the Cross
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"Patience with oneself is the beginning of all virtue."
John of the Cross
"Patience is the highest kind of strength."
Meister Eckhart
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"Patience is the virtue that transforms waiting into grace"
John of the Cross