
[The Message of Holy Mother, 17]
Source: Why We Can't Wait
[The Message of Holy Mother, 17]
[Thus Spake the Holy Mother, 72-73]
“Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.”
Part II, section 1.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)
“Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.”
“Ye patient fields, rejoice!
The blessing that ye pray for silently
Is come at last”
Sylphs
Poems (1851), Prometheus
Context: Ye patient fields, rejoice!
The blessing that ye pray for silently
Is come at last; for ye shall no more fade,
Nor see your flow'rets droop like famishing babes
Upon your comfortless breasts.
“If you are patient… and wait long enough… Nothing will happen”
“When power is within reach, few will wait patiently for it.”
Source: The Ghost Brigades (2006), Chapter 7 (p. 169)
“There she was, patiently waiting, alone, formidable in her gentleness.”