#patience

Passages on patience from many traditions.

“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty”

— Proverbs 16:32 (KJV) · Judaism · #patience · source

“There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing that can take precedence of it”

— Tao Te Ching, ch. 78 (trans. James Legge) · Taoism · #patience · source

“O ye who believe! seek help with patience and with prayer, for God is with the patient.”

— Qur'an 2:153 (trans. J. M. Rodwell) · Islam · #patience · source

“Be forbearing one with another and set not your affections on things below.”

— Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, Persian 48 (trans. Shoghi Effendi) · Baha'i · #patience · source

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