Patience

And know that the base are the more enduring in body and the noble the more enduring in soul, because endurance of what bodies meet with is among the qualities of beasts, while the praiseworthy endurance is that a man be a conqueror of his own soul, wary of caprice, a bearer of the hardships whose outcome is hoped to be good, and steadfast in the struggle against the appetites.

Break your soul in by bearing with the bad neighbour and the bad companion at table;

( the counsel of Luqmān to his son ) Be grave in hardship, patient in what is hateful, thankful in ease.

by patience under what you hate you attain what you love, and by patience with what you love you escape what you hate.

For he is the more able to find fault, so be the more patient in bearing it;

For if he bears patiently with the king's calling him again, he gains his own desire from the king, whereas he stands answerable if he crosses it.

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.

And this aspect of divine patience, to be sure, may perhaps be estimated as something distant, as it were from on high.

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.

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;

"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.