There are many sayings that deal with patience…
Take your time and do things right.
Measure twice and cut once.
A Chinese proverb puts it like this, “One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.”
The wisest king in all history and the subject of many movies was King Solomon. He wrote the largest portion of the book of Proverbs in the Old Testament. Here are a couple examples from that book on patience…
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, But he who is quick-tempered exalts folly.
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, And his glory is to overlook a transgression. Proverbs 19:11 (
An angry man stirs up dissension,
and a hot-tempered one commits many sins.
Hot-tempered people are ones that act on their feelings of anger and frustration before thinking through all the consequences of such actions.
In the New Testament, James puts it like this…
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. James 1:19-20 (NIV)
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