Patience

“Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”

“The Law of Development in this Creation does not tolerate any jumps when genuine maturity is to be attained.”

“Rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer.”

“Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD.”

“The Awakened call patience the highest penance, long-suffering the highest Nirvana.”

“Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him.”

“All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small.”

“A human spirit must have a thousandfold experiences if he really wishes to mature to a higher recognition!”

“Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain. You also be patient.”

“The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.”

“He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.”

“In calm weather only the ripe fruit fall, but during storms the unripe fruit also fall.”

“I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry.”

“For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.”

“Silently shall I endure abuse as the elephant in battle endures the arrow sent from the bow: for the world is ill-natured.”

“The vicissitudes in man's existence only occur in the between time, in the period of inner growth and maturing.”

“That you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.”

“Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.”

“Every one in the world knows that the soft overcomes the hard, and the weak the strong, but no one is able to carry it out in practice.”

“Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”

“Life on earth is like one step in the entire existence of a man, but so great that he cannot omit it. Unless he sets his foot firmly and securely on this step, it will be quite impossible for him to ascend to the next one, for he needs the first as a foundation!”

“Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.”

“Strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy.”

“With all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love.”

“Him I call indeed a Brahmana who, though he has committed no offence, endures reproach, bonds, and stripes, who has endurance for his force, and strength for his army.”

“Only through the complete and absolute fulfilment of each step to be experienced can the next higher one develop itself.”

“The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

“A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.”

“It is right to think of the past in order to learn the lessons it teaches, and also to dream of the future to receive encouragement therefrom, but in the present one must do nothing but live fully and consciously!”

“By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.”

“Who thinks his great achievements poor Shall find his vigour long endure.”

“For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won't delay.”

“Therefore the LORD will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.”

“Do not expect blessings to rain down upon you immediately, as many fools do.”

“Good people walk on whatever befall, the good do not prattle, longing for pleasure; whether touched by happiness or sorrow wise people never appear elated or depressed.”

“Wait for the LORD, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.”

“My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.”

“To those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life.”

“Man on earth makes one great mistake when seeking for spiritual knowledge: he wants to strive forward with leaps and bounds instead of proceeding step by step in calmness and sure certainty.”

“Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus.”

“May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and into the perseverance of Christ.”

“Therefore the sage sees difficulty even in what seems easy, and so never has any difficulties.”

“Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.”

“Zeal is also harmful, for it induces one to make jumps that paralyse the powers.”

“This is an old saying, O Atula, this is not only of to-day: `They blame him who sits silent, they blame him who speaks much, they also blame him who says little; there is no one on earth who is not blamed.'”

“By your endurance you will win your lives.”

“For I hope in you, LORD. You will answer, Lord my God.”

“For a precocious child is like a fruit the kernel of which is still unripe, whereas the shell is already about to grow old!”

“LORD, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.”

“It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is the LORD! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!"”

“Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.”

“As soon as a person’s serious volition to ascend sets in, however, he will quickly notice how his surroundings become gradually more and more animated, as if everything possible were being put in his way which, however, always turns out well.”

“Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.”

“Hence the sage puts away excessive effort, extravagance, and easy indulgence.”

“There never was, there never will be, nor is there now, a man who is always blamed, or a man who is always praised.”

“But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.”

“Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance, godliness.”

“And just as here on earth you only tread a new, hitherto unfamiliar path with care, investigating it, so must you cautiously proceed step by step also on the new spiritual paths which open before you, in order always to keep firm ground under your feet. You must not rush ahead, for then the danger of falling is greater.”

“That older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance.”