Patience
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
patience · endurance · false patience · the health of patience · true patience
in the texts
De Patientia
The central virtue of the treatise: forbearance and steadfast endurance modeled on God's own nature, opposed to impatience, and productive of every other virtue.
And this aspect of divine patience, to be sure, may perhaps be estimated as something distant, as it were from on high.
For the spirit of patience sits upon a throne, most mild and most gentle, which is not gathered into a whirlwind, does not grow black with cloud, but is of a tender serenity, open and simple — which Elijah saw the third time.
So I, most wretched of men, ever fevered with the heats of impatience, must needs sigh and call out and hold forth upon that health of patience which I do not possess, while I call to mind, and in the contemplation of my own weakness reflect, that the good soundness of faith and the health of the Lord's discipline do not easily come to anyone unless patience sits at his side.
Adversus Marcionem
The virtue of enduring injury and hatred without retaliation, argued to be commanded consistently by both the Creator and Christ.
"Blessed shall you be, when men shall hold you in hatred, and shall reproach you, and shall cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Plainly Christ teaches a new patience, restraining even the requital of injury permitted by the Creator, who demands an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth;