2006-10-20 15:19:51 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It help you in acting and reacting with other,(mostly keep you from going off on others)
acording to Webster
PATIENCE, n. pa'shens. [L. patientia, from patior, to suffer.]
1. The suffering of afflictions, pain, toil, calamity, provocation or other evil, with a calm, unruffled temper; endurance without murmuring or fretfulness. Patience may spring from constitutional fortitude, from a kind of heroic pride, or from christian submission to the divine will.
2. A calm temper which bears evils without murmuring or discontent.
3. The act or quality of waiting long for justice or expected good without discontent.
Have patience with me,and I will pay thee all. Mat 18.
4. Perseverance; constancy in labor or exertion.
He learnt with patience, and with meekness taught.
5. The quality of bearing offenses and injuries without anger or revenge.
His rage was kindled and his patience gone.
6. Sufferance; permission. [Not used.]
7. A plant, a species of rumex of dock.
2006-10-20 15:26:23 · answer #1 · answered by Noble Angel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there's a time and a place for patience.
I've had a piece of equipment down for 60 days now and my patience with the three companies who keep passing the buck has run out.
I've been pursuing this girl for 3 years now and I tried to keep as cool and be as patient as possible. Three years is a lot of patience. So far we just Gavote, I'd like to at least start ballroom dancing, but I play by her rules.
2006-10-20 22:59:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say patience is the ability to tolerate unexpected problems, delays, and ignorance without losing your cool. I think it's important because you will just make yourself crazy if you stew over problems or delays you can't control. Also, you more than likely run into ignorance on a daily basis, so if you can be patient about it, perhaps you can enlighten the person.
2006-10-20 22:25:12 · answer #3 · answered by Purdey EP 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Patience is not just waiting, it is waiting calmly.
It is important because we treat others better when we are patient, it is difficult to cultivate because we are often so busy and concerned with our own lives and problems that we brush by others, or we get upset when we have to wait because we think what we are doing is so important that it cannot wait. Sorry, I may be a little off subject!
2006-10-20 22:26:49 · answer #4 · answered by juniper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The more patience you have the less you look like an a$$hole to other people.
2006-10-20 22:21:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From a Freudian point of view, it's our ego and super-ego. From an evolutionary stance I'd say it's a survival trait (as we'd all die off pretty fast if we always sprang into action without considering the circumstances or the wisdom of our decision). From a social point of view it's a cooperation thing. We can't all take our turn at once because we have to behave nicely with the other animals.
2006-10-24 17:03:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Patience in the Bible is described "long-suffering", and a willingness to wait for God to reveal His will for us. It is described as a fruit of the Holy Spirit in Galatians 5, and as a work of God in our hearts. Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint..
2006-10-20 22:25:58 · answer #7 · answered by Bob L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is important to have patience so that we don't go bald. Because without it, we'd be pulling all our hair out.
2006-10-20 22:22:35 · answer #8 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Guns N Roses song, we need it cause music is cool.
Take it slow, it'll work itself out fine, all we need is just a little patience.
2006-10-20 22:25:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Patience is your tolerance for your fellow human beings.
2006-10-20 22:23:06 · answer #10 · answered by Kerilyn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋