Pastoral Resources

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

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

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Genius is eternal patience.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.