“There’s something about patience that God deems necessary for our life in the age to come and so, whether through agriculture or discipleship or bodily development or eschatology or procreation, God makes us wait”
“This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us of God's suffering, God's pain, God's broken heart. It's God making the first move and then waiting for our response.”
“The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.”
“All things acceptable to God the Father must come from God the Son, whether us or our works.”
“..:"The trouble that comes to your life, doesn't come to break you, it comes to introduce you to your God in a new and fresh way."Every storm comes into our lives to teach us somethings. Whether be humbleness, patience, perseverance, or character, it always comes to teach us something. Its not the circumstances nor storms that are the promblem, is the way we see and persive things. It's how we react to each and every one of them that defines us and influences in our growth.That's why it is so important that we renew our minds constantly 'coz by doing so we'll be able to see things as they are, not as they might seem.If we renew our minds, we have a better chance at seeing the opportunities hidden within each storm… Within each circumstance…Have a bless day:..”
“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”