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

"Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you."

"Be patient in affliction."

"Waiting for anyone is a cause for a tremendously bad life ahead. When the electricity is gone and you wait for it, that is considered as artadhyan (mournful meditation). Twenty years worth of effort gets washed away in waiting for half an hour. In such situations, you simply have to take an adjustment."

"But then one time, you track down an email address and you're near a computer with Internet access so you don't have that nice cushion and you type what you're feeling and press send before you have a chance to talk yourself out of it. And then you wait, and wait, and wait, and nothing comes back, so all those things you thought were so important to say, really, they weren't. They weren't worth saying at all."

"Ignore the people who advise you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!"
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