patience on Delayed Gratification

Patience is love for the long haul; it is bearing up under difficult circumstances, without giving up or giving in to bitterness. Patience means working when gratification is delayed. It means taking ...

Delayed gratification may be an important key to success in life, points out Mark Batterson. In a variety of experiments, the most famous from 1972, Walter Mischel studied how young children delayed g...

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

In a study at UC Berkeley conducted by Adrianna Jenkins and Ming Hsu, it was discovered imagination may be the pathway needed to uncover patience. The study found when we imagine possible outcomes, it...

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

Patience is a hard discipline. It is not just waiting until something happens over which we have no control: the arrival of the bus, the end of the rain, the return of a friend, the resolution of a co...

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

A 2007 study conducted at Fuller Theological Seminary found patient people were less likely to suffer from depression. Patient people were found to be more grateful and expressed they felt more connec...

We must learn to see our limits as the entrance into the good life, not what bars us from it. But as we grow older, waiting feels like an inconvenience or affront. We take out our phones when we’re...

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him. So often when God's timetable stretches into years we b...

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord’s own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in so...

Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on th...

Patience is not simply the ability to wait, it’s how we behave while we are waiting.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

“If I’m not back in five minutes, just wait longer.”

I’m sitting at a traffic light in my neighborhood, waiting for the red light to turn. I’m trying to be relaxed and unhurried about my life. Before I have a chance to respond to the light that has just...

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

In the last class I taught at Regent, an obviously irritated young woman came up to me and said, “Dr. Peterson, three times during your lecture you did not say anything for twenty seconds. I know beca...

Have you ever felt like some people take longer to leave a parking spot when you are waiting for them? Well, apparently you are not just imagining it…Three separate studies have demonstrated that this...

Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.

The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!

Contemplation is waiting patiently for the gaps to be filled in, and it does not insist on quick closure or easy answers.

God intended man to have all good, but in . . . God’s time; and therefore all disobedience, all sin, consists essentially in breaking out of time. Hence the restoration of order by the Son of God ha...

Great things are not accomplished by idle dreams, but by years of patient study.

Our patience is demonstrated most clearly when we settle ourselves and focus on what we can do while we wait.