Patience

Talks

Quotes

“Have you noticed that anyone driving slower than you is an idiot and anyone driving faster than you is a maniac?” George Carlin

There are no escalators on the straight and narrow path – Neal A. Maxwell

Be as patient with the Lord as he has been with you.

We tell children “Just a minute” constantly.  But when we ask them to do things, we expect them to jump immediately.

Maybe you inherited a temper from your earthly father, but you inherited patience, a divine attribute, from your Heavenly Father.

A man’s car stalled in an intersection.  The lady behind him kept honking.  The man went back, she rolled down her window and he said “If you’ll go fix my car, I’ll sit here and honk the horn for you.”

“Patience is not indifference. Actually it means caring very much but being willing, nevertheless, to submit to the Lord and what the scriptures call the ‘process of time’.”

“Patience is a willingness, in a sense, to watch the unfolding purposes of God with a sense of wonder and awe, rather than pacing up and down within the cell of our circumstance.” – Elder Neal A. Maxwell

If we could develop Christlike qualities in five years, we wouldn’t need an 80-year life span.

The real secret of patience is to find something else to do in the meantime. – Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games

Luigi Barzini, Sr:

Impatience poisons all our joys and prevents us from recognizing happiness.  We are made impatient by the impression that happiness is always a little further on.  We want to rush through everything to achieve it.  But happiness, as a philosopher once wrote, is like a ball chased by a child – when you catch up with it, you give it a kick. – Vita Vagabonda (Rizzoli, Milan)

Patience is an indispensable element of faith. 

Direction is more important than speed.

God grant me patience and I want it right now.

Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue. – Adi Da

PRAYER

I haven’t gossiped, I haven’t lost my temper

I haven’t been greedy, grumpy,

Nasty or overindulgent,

I’m very thankful for that.

But in a few minutes God

I’m going to get out of bed.

And from then on, I’m probably

Going to need a lot of help.

Amen.

Jesus’ call “Come follow me” is not only for those prepared to compete in a spiritual Olympics In fact, discipleship is not a competition at all but an invitation to all.  Our journey of discipleship is not a dash around the track, nor is it fully comparable to a lengthy marathon.  In truth, it is a lifelong migration toward a more celestial world. – Neil L. Andersen