the saying patience is a virtue came from psychomachia.
the saying patience is a virtue came from psychomachia.
where did the saying patience is a virtue come from?
psychomachia
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according to his essay, "practicing patience: how christians should be sick", in "christians among the virtues", he said that christians are called to be patient patients in sickness and in health because "patience is integral to the christian life". patience cannot be first learned while being a patient. to learn patience, christians are to exercise the virtue through deeds, truth, practice, and living it. hauerwas also says that patience is a virtue we have in common with god. "in him, patience has its beginning, and from him as its source it takes its splendor and dignity." he also says that god showed us the best example of patience when it comes to the life of jesus. because god is the foundation, hauerwas stated that "only patience shaped by christ is true patience". as well as this, he later emphasized that patience is not developed by human will, but given through the holy spirit, who gives us the capacity to love, for "without [love] in us there cannot be patience because in good men it is the [love] of god which endures all things." in the author's essay, he gave people a framework of how to learn to practice patience when we are not sick:
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