“Patience is a great thing, a great virtue. Christ said that if you don’t have patience, you will lose your souls, and in order to gain your souls you must have patience. Patience is love, and without love you can’t have patience. But it’s a matter of faith. In reality, we are without faith, because we don’t know how God works and frees us from difficulties.”

(Elder St Porphyrios in ‘Wounded by Love’)