Patience and its virtues

"It is patience which firmly fortifies the foundations of our faith. It is this which lifts up on high the increase of our hope. It is this which directs our doing, that we may hold fast the way of Christ while we walk by His patience. It is this that makes us to persevere as sons of God, while we imitate our Father's patience." - St. Cyprian Tertullian and Saint Cyprian of Carthage were two of the most influential early Christian writers from North Africa. Both of them wrote on Patience, depict