Perfect love is perfectly patient.

Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.

We, more than others, should carry jumper and tow cables not only in our cars, but also in our hearts, by which means we can send the needed boost or charge of encouragement or the added momentum to mortal neighbors.