Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
Source: In Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World, by Edythe Draper, 1992.
-- Peter Marshall, (May 27 1902-1949), US religious leader; He was Senate chaplain, 1947-48; subject of A Man Called Peter, written by his wife Catherine, 1951.