20. Let thus much have been
said with regard to charity, without which in us there cannot be
true patience, because in good men it is the love of God which
endureth all things, as in bad men the lust of the world. But this
love is in us by the Holy Spirit which was given us. Whence, of
Whom cometh in us love, of Him cometh patience. But the lust of the
world, when it patiently bears the burdens of any manner of
calamity, boasts of the strength of its own will, like as of the
stupor of disease, not robustness of health. This boasting is
insane: it is not the language of patience, but of dotage. A will
like this in that degree seems more patient of bitter ills, in
which it is more greedy of temporal good things, because more empty
of eternal.