Even trusty butler Alfred was tested to the limits
of his patience by Bruce.
Pushed to the limit
of their patience by Violet's hurtful accusations and destructive behavior, the Oklahoma prairie home erupts with hurtful arguments and deep - rooted angst, exposing a number of family secrets that get rooted out for all to hear, for better or worse.
I often am out
of patience by the end of the day.
Every day, it seems, we're offered yet another chance to practice the Art
of Patience by trying to be a patient parent.
Not exact matches
Invented
by the Wright brothers as a psychological experiment to test the boundaries
of human
patience and basic comfort, airplanes are the in - demand, out -
of - shape transportation
of the future.
One
of the major reasons cited
by entrepreneurs has been the lack
of patience and a prolonged hangover
of an MNC ambience.
Another factor that led to the latest round
of investments was the technical expertise
of the in - house team which Gupta describes as «chosen
by patience».
We again thank for their
patience and appreciation our customers in our Spring Branch service area who have endured among the longest outages resulting from the catastrophic flooding brought
by Hurricane Harvey including the subdivisions
of Fleetwood, Meadows
of Memorial, Memorial Thicket, Nottingham Forest, Nottingham Oaks, River Forest, Talia Trails, Thornwood, Winchester, Yorkchester and others in the Memorial area.
(As I've also noted, this is not a practical or optimal strategy
by any means, since it has far too much tracking risk and would have required implausible levels
of patience, but it's an enlightening fact nonetheless).
For me, it was a like a real eye opener, right from how it's very important to have a Financial Plan and have an objective for investing, to Goals, having
Patience and confidence on your stocks, when is the right time to invest, valuations, how and why small investors should invest, how to not let your judgment be clouded
by others, teaching investment as an ART to our children, and how to avoid the pitfalls
of investing.
Grantham notes that, as a value investor, we are likely to be testing the
patience of some clients, but given we only want clients who are patient, we are more than comfortable being tested
by the market.
We cant beat our values
of equality and freedom into others, we have to lead
by example, a difficult path that requires more
patience and forgiving than most
of us posses.
Over the years, Derr has demonstrated an almost heroic
patience in attending to the literature
of radical environmentalism, and responding to arguments point
by point.
Those guys got a lot
of patience, or they know how to keep their women in line
by makin them believe that god wants them to... Who cares as long as it's not happenin to you?
When you have pastors turning their role into a command - driven CEO - style one, I think you can make your own inferences... but you'll know them
by their fruit, which is the measure
of love, joy, peace,
patience, goodness, gentleness, and self - control.
It is an attitude
of submission,
patience, openness, in the confidence that God is at work in the present; an attitude that determines how the Christian should act with reference both to the future (which is given
by God) and to the hidden present (where God reveals himself).
It was certainly time, however, for him to be reassessed
by someone with the
patience to gain access to all the archival material, to read what survives
of his prodigious correspondence, and to reread the books with critical acumen and intelligence.
The love,
patience and candor offered
by people
of color in my life has given me a new set
of ears for Dr. Yancy's outcry.
8 So could he say, God «is the poet
of the world, with tender
patience leading it
by his vision
of truth, beauty, and goodness.»
Here there is no talk
of having a little
patience, and
of things going well
by Sunday; but here is found the Eternal's victorious comfort, and these scourged Apostles have more than conquered.
The only help here is
patience and understanding
of the fact that even the Church necessarily and in accordance with its duty has to bow to the law
of history
by which what was good yesterday is not good today.
But in spite
of this,
patience submits to suffering and
by just this submission finds itself free in the midst
of unavoidable suffering.
First and foremost, it is the policy
of this forum to respect other participants and you are obviously not abiding
by that so I urge you to exercise
patience when dealing with the «terrorist» and the «ignorant» for you are the better person and not use foul language.
The practice
of loving our neighbor in its many forms
of respect,
patience, listening, teaching, etc, shrouded within healthy debate and consensus, has been displaced in the public square
by clever innuendo, diatribes and opinions.
We would find it impossible to endure suffering and failure with
patience and joy except that Christ has given us
by his words, his glorious resurrection, and the gift
of the Holy Spirit a sure hope that he will never abandon his disciples.
Okay, here's a shorter way, for those
of you who haven't the
patience for my full cinemascopic link - littered prose, to get at what I mean
by Intermediate Modernity In Book VIII Republic terms, intermediate - modernity was the era
of the self - repressing Oligarchic Soul, and «the....
The task
of correlating the theological and cultural / philosophical agendas must be characterized
by patience and tentativeness — qualities which have not always been highly prized among conservative evangelicals.
One man wrote this: «Our
patience is improved,
by bearing calmly the indignities he strives to load us with; our charity is enflamed
by returning good for ill, and
by pardoning and forgiving the injuries he does us; our prudence is increased
by wisely managing ourselves in our demeanor, so as not to give him opportunity to wound us; our fortitude is strengthened
by the manful repelling
of scorns, and
by giving occasions for the display
of an undaunted courage in all our actions; our industry is strengthened and confirmed
by watching all his attacks and stratagems; and
by our contriving how we may best acquit ourselves in all our contests.»
As we have seen several times before, the criterion
of genuine hope in God's promise consists
of a willingness to temper the sacramen - talism
of our dreams
by a willingness to look mystically into the future symbolized
by our images,
by a steady posture
of patience and silence, and
by a transformative praxis that refuses to escape from the troubles
of present history.
Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that
by patience and comfort
of thy holy Word we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope
of everlasting life, which thou hast...
What perspectives and attitudes
of confidence,
patience and gentleness are permitted to our future Christian, and indeed imposed on him
by all this, amidst the radical heterogeneity
of philosophies and ideologies in which his life is set, has already really been indicated.
It does this first
by having the
patience amid the injustice and violence
of this world to care for the widow, the poor, and the orphan... it is our conviction that unless we take the time for such care neither we nor the world can know what justice looks like.
We do not find ourselves permitted
by the Word
of God, however, to advise a woman to leave her husband, except
by force
of necessity; and we do not understand this force to be operative when a husband behaves roughly and uses threats to his wife, nor even when he beats her, but when there is imminent peril to her life... [W] e... exhort her to bear with
patience the cross which God has seen fit to place upon her; and meanwhile not to deviate from the duty which she has before God to please her husband, but to be faithful whatever happens [«Letter From Calvin to an Unknown Woman,» June 4, 1559, Calvini Opera, XVII, col. 539, in P. E. Hughes, editor, The Register
of the Company
of Pastors
of Geneva in the Time
of Calvin (Eerdmans, 1966), pp. 344 - 345].
Okay, here's a shorter way, for those
of you who haven't the
patience for my full cinemascopic link - littered prose, to get at what I mean
by Intermediate Modernity
The kind
of living that eventuates is described
by Paul, «The fruit
of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self - control; against such there is no law.»
Death, how welcome is your sentence to a destitute man whose strength is failing, worn down
by age and endless anxiety, resentful and at the end
of his
patience!
It is one
of the greatest weaknesses
of our time that we lack the
patience and faith to build up voluntary organizations for purposes which we value highly, and immediately ask the government to bring about
by coercion (or with means raised
by coercion) anything that appears as desirable to large numbers.
My
patience almost as depleted as my phone battery, we approached the grotto proper to kneel before a large bright painting
of the Virgin depicted in red robes and untying knots handed to her
by nearby angels.
This is illustrated not only
by the references to the future in the thirteenth chapter
of First Corinthians, but
by the fact that in the most «moralistic» book
of the New Testament, the epistle
of James, there are warnings as to the futility
of riches and the fate
of exploiters in the last days (5:1 - 6), and injunctions to steadfastness as the brethren wait in
patience for the coming
of the Lord (5:7 - 9).
«He is the poet
of the world, with tender
patience leading it
by his vision
of truth, beauty, and goodness.»
Such a friend reflects qualities
of love, mercy, honesty, service,
patience, optimism, professionalism, and the entire lifestyle taught
by Islam.
As E. G. Selwyn puts it, it was the conviction
of Peter that the Christian
by his
patience, his suffering and his activity in life «should mould society into closer conformity with the will
of God».
That this should be wearisome is
of course something the generation can not say, for the generation has in fact the task to perform and has nothing to do with the consideration that the foregoing generation had the same task — unless the particular generation or the particular individual within it were presumptuous enough to assume the place which belongs
by right only to the Spirit which governs the world and has
patience enough not to grow weary.
Hey Gaunt... I think you confuse the b @ $ tardization
of religion
by those who would use it for personal gain and to prove their narrow minded viewpoints with what religion is really trying to teach... peace, love,
patience, forgiveness, understanding.
Through the monastic life they demonstrated how to «share
by patience in the passion
of Christ and hereafter deserve to be united with him in his kingdom.»
It is as if there were a cross unseen, standing on its undiscovered hill, far back in the ages, out
of which were sounding always, just the same deep voice
of suffering love and
patience, that was heard
by mortal ears from the sacred hill
of Calvary.4
Though the mills
of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with
patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all --(F. von Logau: «Retribution,» from the «Sinngedichte,» as translated
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Let's not forget we were forwarned about this day, and the very Word
of God this man is talking about fortold us: 2 Pteter: 3 14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found
by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, 15 and regard the
patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them
of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest
of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
The third is a period
of patience, long - suffering, and expectancy: the captivity and exile, the return and temporary restoration
of the nation, and subjugation
by Rome.
We read
of a church and the material
of which it is built;
of a way
of life characterized
by «sickness,» «poverty» and «centuries
of hard work and
patience»; thoughts and attitudes, religious practice and desire; and
of the wind and the sea.