Patience

“An impatient man is like a troubled sea that cannot rest (Isa. 57:20). He tortures himself upon the rack of his own griefs and passions, whereas patience calms the heart, as Christ did the sea, when it was rough.”

“The wronged side is always the safest.”

“Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.”

“Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.”

“Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul, they lose nothing who gain Christ.”

“It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes.”

“A Christian without patience is like a soldier without arms.”

“An upright man is always worth beholding, but then he is most to be admired when like a bright star, he shines in the dark, and having lost all, he holds fast his integrity.”

“No man of God need be astonished at slander, as though some strange thing had happened unto him.”

“If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!”

“He that goes before the cloud of God's providence goes on a fool's errand.”

“He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.”

“Solomon appeals to our consciences: "For many times also your own heart has known that even you have cursed others." The penitent remembrance of former guilt would greatly help to curb the passionate resentment of present trouble.”

“I am unable to overtake what the Lord hath laid upon me here; and, therefore, I desire to submit to sovereignty, and must be silent.”

“The work of meekness is to calm the spirit, so as that the inward peace may not be disturbed by any outward provocation.”

“It is a blessed thing for a Man or Woman in power, to think it is more Glory to use their power to cross their passion, than to use their power to revenge them that cross them.”

“Again, God is a great God that we call to, and it is fit for us to wait, and to wait long.”

“When our hearts are hot within us, it is good for us to keep silence, and hold our peace: so David did; and when he did speak, it was in prayer to God, and not in reply to the wicked that were before him.”

“Thus his apostles imitated him: "When we are cursed—we bless; when we are persecuted—we endure it; when we are slandered—we answer kindly.”

“When the waves of the sea beat on a rock, they batter and make a noise, but a soft sand receives them silently, and returns them without damage.”

“The meek man is like a ship that rides at anchor—is moved, but not removed: the storm moves it—the meek man is not a stock or stone under provocation—but does not remove it from its port.”

“But there are some infirmities in our brethren which cannot be amended nor redressed by brotherly correction.”

“Patience and longsuffering mark all his doings: he loves to spare; he lingers over his handiwork, loath to destroy it even when vile.”

“But if a single aggravating circumstance arises that displeases them, they are thrown into such an angry and fretting condition that they lose all the benefit of their comforts.”

“He lets wicked men go on a great while and does not come to judgment for sin, but stays until all come together, until a great sum of wrath and judgment come together.”

“I have read of Phocion who, being wrongfully condemned to die, desired that his son might not remember the injuries which the Athenians had done to him, nor revenge his blood. 3.”

“This longsuffering, or tender pity to the lost, is not forgetfulness, or slackness in promise, or indifference to sin, or weakness, or relaxation of law, or good-natured connivance at evil.”