Patience enables us to endure hardship caused by another person in conformity with God’s will, without sadness or resentment.
There are three grades of patience:
The lowest is: bearing difficulties without interior complaint.
The middle is: use of hardship to make progress in virtue.
The highest is: to desire the cross and afflictions for Christ’s love, to have something to offer up, and to accept them with spiritual joy.
Patience is a form of the moral virtue of fortitude.
The virtue of patience is one of the twelve fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Benignity is the virtue of kindness. The quality of understanding sympathy and concern for persons in need.
It is shown in affable speech, generous conduct, and forgiveness for injuries sustained.
The virtue of benignity is one of the twelve fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Patience looks so very difficult to achieve at a high level.