Holy Patience

"In this sense, holy patience may be described as a sister of wisdom and of contemplation. As these virtues cause us to consider and appreciate everything in a perspective centered on God, thus evoking to the full the beauty and depth of all things, so also in the attitude of patience we emphatically let God act, thus allowing all things to unfold from above - as proceeding from their Origin - and by so experiencing their operation again render to God what is God's," Dietrich von Hildebrand, Transformation in Christ.