http://update.greystoneinstitute.org/patience-divine-and-human/ Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:43:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.1 http://update.greystoneinstitute.org/patience-divine-and-human/#comment-22 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:20:32 +0000 http://www.winceandsing.com/blog/?p=195#comment-22 Thank you Dr. Garcia for this meditation. Although written last month, I’ve just read it today. This brief note on our Patient God has given me hope. I’ll make some changes here and there.

]]> http://update.greystoneinstitute.org/patience-divine-and-human/#comment-21 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:11:11 +0000 http://www.winceandsing.com/blog/?p=195#comment-21 Thank you, Jason. Yes, indeed. In my own work I’m developing, biblically and theologically, the ways the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love are situated in a theological context and mode of patience. To use the pithy and astute observation of Adel Bestavros: patience with others is love, patience with self is hope, patience with God is faith.

]]> http://update.greystoneinstitute.org/patience-divine-and-human/#comment-20 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:58:30 +0000 http://www.winceandsing.com/blog/?p=195#comment-20 Beautiful. I just read some similar thoughts on patience, excerpted from Tertullian, in Wilken’s Spirit of Early Christian Thought; he ties patience to the imitation of a patient God, and impatience to lack of hope. Patience is a key to the cultivation of all other virtues (prob not just true of ourselves, but in the cultivation of these things in our children, students, disciples, etc), just as impatience begets vices, i.e., nobody commits adultery “without the impatience of lust.”

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