"Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work." ― Peter Marshall Topic(s): Patience More From Peter Marshall "Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." "If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you." "Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with." More In Patience "I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."― Gertrude Stein "So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy."― Thomas Keneally "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."― Napoleon Hill