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
"Patience is the practice of trusting in timing larger than our own."Emanuel Swedenborg
"Patience is the quality of the strong."Ibn Arabi
"Patience is the virtue of those who truly love."John of the Cross
"Patience is the mark of a soul perfected in love."John of the Cross
"Patience is not sitting and waiting, but maintaining your grace while moving forward."Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
"The one who plants dates does not harvest dates."Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
"The greatest prayer is patience."Teresa of Avila
"Patience is not passive; it is the active choice to trust the process."Teresa of Avila
"Patience with others begins with patience with ourselves."Teresa of Avila
"Patience is not the absence of action, but right action at the right time."Ibn Arabi
"Patience is a noble virtue, with power over pain."Julian of Norwich
"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
"Patience is the soil in which all spiritual fruits are cultivated."John of the Cross
"Patience is not the ability to wait, but to keep a good attitude while waiting."Hafiz
"The Greed for fruit misses the flower."Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
"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
"Patience is the virtue that teaches us to wait upon God's perfect timing."Teresa of Avila
"God's patience with us surpasses all human understanding."Julian of Norwich
"Patience is the garden in which virtue grows."Julian of Norwich
"Patience is not passivity; it is the active understanding of necessity."Spinoza
"The wood that is green and moist will burn slowly and produce heat gradually."John of the Cross
"Patience is the foundation upon which all virtue is built."John of the Cross
"Patience with oneself is the beginning of all virtue."John of the Cross
"Patience is the highest kind of strength."Meister Eckhart
"Patience is the virtue that transforms waiting into grace"John of the Cross