Patience

These meditations present patience as a spiritual temper formed in suffering, distinguishing mere stoical endurance from Christian patience rooted in faith. The author argues that true patience combines calm endurance with submission, resignation, humility, penitence, and sustaining hope, and that trials, rightly received, mature believers. Emphasis is placed on the temporal aspect of patience—willingness to wait for divine relief—and on practical pastoral counsel and biblical reflection intended to help those enduring prolonged or painful afflictions to find meaning and growth in their trial.