Patient Silence

Dear Lord please be with us this day and may Your Holy Spirit please be guiding and protecting us in every thing that we say and do. Thank You for all of the great gifts and blessings and protection that You give us and please forgive our sins the same as we forgive the mistakes of others.
Dear Lord please lead us on paths of righteousness on this day and help us hold our tongue when we are tempted to speak from some selfish attitude when patient silence would be more righteous and merciful and in the Spirit of the teachings of Jesus Christ. In Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen.

Quotation:*
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. --Thomas Carlyle 

KJV*
Ec 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 
Ec 3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Ec 3:3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 
Ec 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 
Ec 3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 
Ec 3:6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 
Ec 3:7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 
Ec 3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. 
Ec 3:9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? 
Ec 3:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. 
Ec 3:11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Ec 3:12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. 
Ec 3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. 
Ec 3:14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him. 
Ec 3:15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.