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"Church leaders may get disappointed in ministry if they do not know God's time."

"If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs."

"There is a saying that, paper is more patient than man."

"Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years."

"Don't be in a hurry in life. The sacred-time determines the due events."

"You must give him time,' said her grandmother;'and you must be content not to be believed for a while. It is very hard to bear; but I have had to bear it, and shall have to bear it yet. I will take care of what Curdie thinks of you in the end. You must let him go now."
Explore more quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings."

"The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. . . . The force of character is cumulative."

"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era."

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship."
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