Patience


Patience is bitter, but its fruit sweet.

            -Jean Jacques Rousseau

Patience

Endeavor to be patient in bearing the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort soever they be; for thou thyself also hast many failings which must be borne with by others.

            -Thomas A Kempis

'We Can't Lose Our Composure!'

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

-Thomas Paine

Vice & Virtue


Vice and sins are a deadly poison; but virtues and good works are a healing medicine.

            -St. Francis of Assisi

Are Patience & Perseverance The Same Thing, It Sure Feels Like It


Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly; for this day only is ours; we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

            -Jeremy Taylor

Patience & Forgiveness


Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.  I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and always rise up bravely from a fall.

            -St. Francis de Sales

Forgiveness


Nor can we fall below the arms of God, how low soever it be we fall.

            -William Penn

Blue Monday

Cast all your care on God!  That anchor holds.

            -Lord Alfred Tennyson

A Toast


May the road rise to meet you.  May the wind be always at your back.  May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

            -Irish Prayer