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Patience is the fruit and proof of faith.

John Calvin

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Augustine of Hippo

True patience is to suffer the wrongs done to us by others in an unruffled spirit and without feeling resentment. Patience bears with others because it loves them; to bear with them and yet to hate them is not the virtue of patience but a smokescreen for anger.

Saint Gregory the Great

Where there is no patience, there is not even a spark of faith.

John Calvin

Patience

Only impatience knows fear, but patience, like love, drives out fear. (EUD, 216)

Soren Kierkegaard

911The anvil is struck by the hammer, and the anvil never strikes in return. Yet the anvil wears the hammer out. Patience baffles fury and vanquishes malice. The nonresistance principle involves a resistance which is irresistible.—25.546

Charles Spurgeon

Patience makes a Christian invincible.

Thomas Watson

Patience is endurance in action.

Warren W. Wiersbe

Patience is not passive: on the contrary it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Anonymous

A Christian without patience is like a soldier without arms.

Thomas Watson

Patience is a quality that is most needed when it is exhausted.

Anonymous

Patience is a bitter plant, but it has a sweet fruit.

Anonymous

Patience achieves more than force.

Edmund Burke

Patience and perseverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

I wanted to be a doctor, but I didn’t have any patience.

Anonymous

Hope is the foundation of patience.

John Calvin

When I commit any offence, some friend who hath but little patience, suddenly snaps asunder his forbearance and is angry with me. The same offence is observed by a loving father, and he is grieved.

Charles Spurgeon

8397 Have patience! All things are difficult before they become easy.

Anonymous

 7   Nothing so cultivates the grace of patience as the endurance of temptation.

Hannah Whitall Smith

The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life (1888)

Hannah Whitall Smith

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

Peter Marshall

Job was not so miserable in his sufferings, as happy in his patience. —Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia

Thomas Fuller

In the Christian life, we have a means. That means is steadfast endurance. The word is hupomonē, which means not the patience which sits down and accepts things but the patience which takes charge of them.

William Barclay

Patience is needed only as long as the affliction or trouble is present, for, when it is over, patience no longer has a purpose. But endurance is a permanent inner quality of strength, which increases each time a trial is patiently and trustingly endured.

John F. MacArthur

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

Peter Marshall

The only way the Lord can develop patience and character in our lives is through trials. Endurance cannot be attained by reading a book (even this one), listening to a sermon, or even praying a prayer. We must go through the difficulties of life, trust God, and obey Him. The result will be patience and character. Knowing this, we can face trials joyfully. We know what trials will do in us and for us, and we know that the end result will bring glory to God.

Warren W. Wiersbe

The Greek word translated “perseverance” connotes an active endurance involving effort and struggle, not a passive patience.

David L. Allen

To “endurance” Paul added “patience,” or as the Greek more literally says, “long-suffering.” “Endurance” is in reference to adverse circumstances, whereas “patience” is in reference to difficult people.

R. Kent Hughes

Christians are strengthened so as to display great endurance and patience.

D. A. Carson

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience. 2. Patience. 3. Patience.

James Hudson Taylor

Wait on the Lord

To make up waiting, I think there is a third thing, and that is patience—to hold out, and wait the Lord’s time and will. The three together—dependence, expectation, patience—make up waiting upon the Lord.

Charles Spurgeon

But wait in faith. Express your unstaggering confidence in him; for unfaithful, untrusting waiting, is but an insult to the Lord.

Charles Spurgeon

10716 There are not three stages in spiritual life—worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting, and from waiting to work. God’s idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.

Oswald Chambers

10764 They that wait upon the Lord renew their strength. They that wait upon men dissipate their energies.

Leonard Ravenhill

Brothers, we are not professionals! We are outcasts. We are aliens and exiles in the world (1 Pet. 2:11). Our citizenship is in heaven, and we wait with eager expectation for the Lord (Phil. 3:20)

John Piper

‘Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him.’ In Hebrew, ‘Be silent to God and let Him mold thee.’ Keep still, and He will mold thee to the right shape.

Martin Luther

Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, “Be silent in God, and let Him Moule thee.” Keep still, and He will Moule thee to the right shape.

Martin Luther

Christian, it is not with you that you may persevere or not—it is not an optional blessing—you must persevere, or else all you have ever known and felt will be good for nothing to you. You must hold on your way if you are ultimately to be saved.

The Righteous Holding On His Way, Volume 13, Sermon #749 - Job 17:9

Charles Spurgeon

How long will you wait before you begin to take possession of the land that the Lord … has given you?”

Warren W. Wiersbe

God’s remnant, who still believed, who still waited, who still hoped, for the coming of the Messiah, and she went and told them the good news that she had seen the Lord’s Christ.

R. C. Sproul

Lord, keep me from a sinful and too eager desire after death. I desire not to be impatient. I wish quietly to wait till my blessed change comes.

George Whitefield

You’re really waiting on the Lord. Not on the Lord’s things, on the Lord.

Timothy Keller

These parables are all about waiting; and waiting is what we all find difficult.

N. T. Wright

Sometimes I think the church would be better off if we would call a moratorium on activity for about six weeks and just waited on God to see what he is waiting to do for us.

A. W. Tozer

Waiting is, for me, one of the most difficult disciplines of life. Yet true faith is able to wait for the fulfillment of God’s purposes in God’s time. But, while we are waiting, we must also be obeying.

Warren W. Wiersbe

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us. Morning And Evening, Page 381

Charles Spurgeon

Above everything, when you wait on God, do so in the spirit of abounding hopefulness. It is God in His glory, in His power, in His love longing to bless you that you are waiting on.

Andrew Murray

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously he once waited for us.

Charles Spurgeon

What are we waiting for? And what are we going to do about it in the meantime?

N. T. Wright

In waiting upon God, the first thought is of the God upon whom we wait. We enter His presence, and feel we need just to be quiet, so that He, as God, can overshadow us with Himself. God longs to reveal Himself, to fill us with Himself. Waiting on God gives Him time in His own way and divine power to come to us.

Andrew Murray

The creation isn’t waiting to share the freedom of God’s children, as some translations imply.

N. T. Wright

This faithfulness of God is the foundation and cornerstone of our hope of final perseverance. The saints shall persevere in holiness because God perseveres in grace. He perseveres to bless, and there believers persevere in being blessed. He continues to keep His people, and there they continue to keep His commandments. All Of Grace, Page 122

Charles Spurgeon

If we have eternal life, if we are His children, we, I say it with reverence, have the ear of God—we can be confident that He is always waiting to listen to us.

Life in God, 119

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

At times God permits His children to experience darkness on a dead-end street where they don’t know which way to turn. When this happens, wait for the Lord to give you light in His own time.

Warren W. Wiersbe

Paul speaks of the future resurrection as a major motive for treating our bodies properly in the present time (1 Corinthians 6:14), and as the reason, not for sitting back and waiting for it all to happen, but for working hard in the present, knowing that nothing done in the Lord, in the power of the Spirit, in the present time will be wasted in God’s future (1 Corinthians 15:58)

N. T. Wright

That writer does the most for us who brings to our attention thoughts that lay close to our minds waiting to be acknowledged as our own.12

A. W. Tozer

Waiting for guidance, waiting for instruction, all the day, is a very blessed part of waiting upon God.

Andrew Murray

In the work of mortification we are not passive, waiting for it to be done to us or for us. On the contrary, we are responsible for putting evil to death.

John Stott

But keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life” (v. 21). God “keeps” us, but we must also “keep” ourselves.

Douglas J. Moo

One of the things waiting on the Lord means is, even when you don’t feel like it, you still do your duty.

Timothy Keller

Waiting on the Lord, waiting for his salvation, and the like, are terms used as being equivalent to trusting in God in the Scripture.

Jonathan Edwards

What is commanded, then, is firm adherence to the faith in the midst of temptations and trials. As they wait patiently for their Lord to return, believers need to fortify themselves for the struggle against sin and with difficult circumstances.

Douglas J. Moo

The Lord Jesus does not come to the church like a thief in the night. The church is looking for and waiting for the Lord to come.

J. Vernon McGee

We wait with patience, not like people in a dark room wondering if anyone will ever come with a lighted candle, but like people in early morning who know that the sun has arisen and are now waiting for the full brightness of midday.

N. T. Wright

God’s sovereign plan to put the world to rights is waiting for you to sign on.

N. T. Wright

You can put all of your confidence in God. He is not angry with you, His dear child! He is not waiting to pounce on you in judgment—He knows that we are dust and He is loving and patient toward us.18

A. W. Tozer

I told him that people who are waiting for the Lord to come don’t have their noses against the window. They are out, busy, working for the Lord.

J. Vernon McGee