Patience

I like what Elyse Fitzpatrick has to say about patience in Helper By Design.

Patience is the "power to endure without complaint something which is disagreeable." It involves restraint in the expression of one's feelings. Sometimes, I forget God's patience with me as I complain and grouse about how I wish the people I love would change more quickly. In practicing patience, we are reflecting God's character, as His anger at sin was restrained by holy love: "Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads to repentance?" (Romans 2:4; also 1 Timothy 1:16)