We have need of patience. We should learn to wait as well as labour, to listen as well as speak, to rest as well as toil. There are moments and hours in life when the supreme duty is to do nothing, to stand quiet and patient, waiting trustfully for God to work, or for the time to come when we can act. Immeasurable harm has been done ofttimes by impatience which could not stand and wait.
This reading was taken from Strength and Beauty
Chapter 21 : Minding the Rests