Patient Quotes - Page 8

• My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play

  Francis Quarles

  Play, Judging, Soul

  'Epigram: Respice Finem'

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• How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Hands, Twists, Necks

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1913). “Selected Poems”

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• To create an atmosphere dedicated to health..to present charming interiors that will attract maternity patients...to develop distinctive decoration and furnishings that can be installed at modest expenditure - and will require a minimum of maintenance costs.

  Dorothy Draper

  Design, Atmosphere, Cost

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• My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts. A spot of laughter, I am sure, Often accelerates one's cure; So let us patients do our bit To help the surgeons make us fit.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Hurt, Laughter, Fun

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• A study was done which shows the majority of oncologists who refer patients for chemotherapy for lung cancer would not themselves take chemotherapy for lung cancer. And in fact if the chemotherapy involved cis-platen, something like 75% of them said they wouldn't take it. But what do these people do all day long? They're sending people for cis-platen.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Cancer, Long, People

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• I look upon cancer in the same way that I look upon heart disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, or even obesity, for that matter, in that by dramatically strengthening the body's immune system through diet, nutritional supplements, and exercise, the body can rid itself of the cancer, just as it does in other degenerative diseases. Consequently, I wouldn't have chemotherapy and radiation because I'm not interested in therapies that cripple the immune system, and, in my opinion, virtually ensure failure for the majority of cancer patients.

  Julian Whitaker

  Cancer, Heart, Exercise

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• In 1978, in the space of 10 months, 28 leukemia patients came to me and they could all work after six days. It is a portal vein circulation disease, not cancer of the blood. So far 150 leukemia patients have come to me and I could help all of them. Do not fear this disease any more.

  Rudolf Breuss

  Cancer, Space, Blood

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• The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to a chemotherapy drug instead of IAT, massive amounts of funding would have been allocated to investigate the drug. Once again, the politics of cancer barred a potentially valuable treatment from reaching the public.

  Jared Diamond

  Cancer, Drug, Survival

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• ...chess is "a lot like football because you have to set up your offense and your defense, every once in a while you need to give up a piece of your team in order to make the big play. It's a game of patience, and that pretty much defines how I run the ball. I'm patient, always looking for the opportunity and always trying to capitalize on the other person's mistake."

  Priest Holmes

  Sports, Football, Running

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• It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. We want to make the hospital a place a person can't wait to come to, whether they are working there or being there as a patient. Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service. Those are some skeletal parts.

  Patch Adams

  Art, Health, Healing

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• The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Health, Witch Doctors, Knowing

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• Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He does. If you cannot hear His whisper, wait till you do. Take care of running before you are sent. Keep your wills in equipoise till God's hand gives the impulse and direction.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Running, Voice, Hands

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Perfect, Submission, Crosses

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• Health care is at the beginning of a dialogue with the world... as health care providers, we have to ask ourselves this question: What stories are we not hearing?

  Sachin H. Jain

  Hearing, Stories, World

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• The patient must be at the center of this transition. Our largest struggle is not with the patient who takes their medication regularly, but with the patient who does not engage in their own care. Technology can be the driver that excites a patient with the prospect of wellness.

  Stephen Beck

  Struggle, Technology, Transition

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• There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. Temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. Death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence.

  Joseph Hall

  Hurt, Hands, Temptation

  Joseph Hall (1867). “Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk: Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall ; to which is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author”, p.396

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• He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

  William Gurnall

  Waiting, Denial, Mercy

  William Gurnall (2008). “Extracts from the Writings of William Gurnall”, p.96, Scripture Truth

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• Appearances can be deceptive. The fact that we cannot see what God is doing does not mean that He is doing nothing. The Lord has His own timetable. It is we who must learn to adjust to it, not vice versa. When God's time comes nothing will stand in His way. We can therefore wait for Him with this happy confidence: "As for God, His way is perfect" (2 Samuel 22:31).

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Mean, Perfect, Waiting

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• The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Opportunity, Perfect, Waiting

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2011). “Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos”, p.35, Multnomah

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• The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him. So often when God's timetable stretches into years we become discouraged and...want to give up or try to work something out on our own.

  Jerry Bridges

  Giving Up, Believe, Years

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• Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grace, Difficult, Hard

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 57: Sermons 3231-3282”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Be Patient, Thyself

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.312, Cosimo, Inc.

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• At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Bears, Be Patient, Ifs

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.343, Cosimo, Inc.

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• God's guidance will require patience on our part. His leading is not usually a direct assurance, a revelation, but His sovereign controlling of the circumstances of our lives, with the Word of God as our rule. It is therefore, inevitable that the unfolding of His purposes will take time - sometimes a very long time.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Long, Purpose, Sovereign

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• Ultimately, all our complaints are directed against God.

  Woodrow M. Kroll

  Be Patient, Complaints

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