That is why, in "God's Grandeur," Hopkins moves directly from praise to chastisement: "Why do men then now not reck his rod?" In "The Starlight Night," he magically evokes the stars — "The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!" — before reminding us that the heavens are not Heaven: "Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize," which we must buy with "Prayer, patience, alms, vows".
Last night, by contrast, Bush asked no sacrifice of the American people apart from their prayers, patience and charitable contributions to victims' families.
Prayer and patience are a much needed commodity.
Less sensational than that of Classical protagonists and not requiring military action for its manifestation, Christian heroism is a continuous reaffirmation of faith in God and is manifested in renewed prayer for patience and fortitude to endure and surmount adversities.
When he wants to send a warning shot Washington's way, he inflames the army of people that stands only steps outside his home in Little Havana, then allows others to calm the crowd with exhortations of prayer and patience.
"We will endure it with prayer and patience and hope.
My mother was given a wide array of treatments that included but was not limited to, prayer, fasting, patience, more prayer, faith, and obedience.
Leonard Cohen at Radio City Music Hall, Saturday, May 16, 2009: silence, patience, prayer.
But I believed I knew how I could beat it: patience, prayers and having a positive attitude.
"Patience and prayer, that's [what] I go by".
Over thousands of years, neither ritual, patience, nor prayer has brought about anything close to this.
