William Carey, for example, labored 7 years before the first Hindu convert was brought to Christ in Burma, and Adoniram Judson toiled 7 years before his faithful preaching was rewarded. In western Africa, it was 14 years before one convert was received into the Christian church. Our Daily Bread. True patience is waiting without worrying. C. Swindoll, Growing Strong , p. 124.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. Leonardo da Vinci. Possess it if you can. Found seldom in a woman, Never in a man.