“Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

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British American author and journalist 1949–2011

Anthony Stafford Beer (1926–2002) British theorist, consultant, and professor

Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 1, Processes and Policies, p. 21.

“(The position of) patience in faith is like that of the head in the body, and he who has no patience has no faith.”

Ali Zayn al-Abidin (659–713) Great-grandson of the Prophet Muhammad

Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī, vol.2, p. 89.
Religious wisdom

“The torturing and testing of parents, is followed by shortage (of sustenance), and being driven towards belittlement and humiliation.”

Ali al-Hadi (829–868) imam

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 369.
Religious Wisdom

“Time and Patience.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“Have you seen a room from which faith has gone?…Like a marriage from which love has gone…And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.”

Graham Greene The Potting Shed

The Potting Shed (1957)

“Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is "timing"
it waits on the right time to act,
for the right principles
and in the right way.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

“For a judge to be worthy of such trust, he or she must be faithful to the Constitution and to the statutes passed by the Congress. He or she must put aside his personal views or preferences, and follow the law -- not make it.”

Merrick Garland (1952) American judge

[Remarks by the President Announcing Judge Merrick Garland as his Nominee to the Supreme Court, Merrick, Garland, w:Merrick Garland, The White House, March 16, 2016, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Remarks_by_the_President_Announcing_Judge_Merrick_Garland_as_his_Nominee_to_the_Supreme_Court#Remarks_by_Judge_Garland]; quote then excerpted in:
USA Today, March 18, 2016, March 17, 2016, Obama: Merrick Garland qualified to serve on Supreme Court immediately, Gregory Korte http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/03/16/obama-supreme-court-nomination/81824982/,; and quote also excerpted in source:
CNN, March 16, 2016, March 18, 2016, Who is Merrick Garland?, Ariane De Vogue and Tami Luhby http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/16/politics/who-is-merrick-garland/index.html?eref=rss_politics,
Remarks by Judge Garland upon nomination to Supreme Court of the United States (2016)

“There is no shortage of disputes.”

Howard Raiffa (1924–2016) American academic

Part I, Overview, p. 7.
The Art and Science of Negotiation (1982)

“But courage, and patience, and faith, and hope have their limit. Blessed be the man who escapes such trial as will determine limit!”

Donald Grant Mitchell (1822–1908) American writer

“Here then we see God’s way of success in our work, whatever it may be – a trinity of prayer, faith and patience.”

James O. Fraser (1886–1938) missionary to China, inventor of Tibeto-Burman Nosu alphabet

16 January 1916 Source: Geraldine Taylor. Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser. Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., 1998, 151.

“Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.”

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