“Do you not see the athletes, how they exercise when they have filled the bags with sand? But there is no need for you to practice this. Life is full of things that exercise you and make you strong.… For it is said, "One who is long-suffering abounds in wisdom, but he who is small of soul is strongly foolish."”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS 19:5
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29He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
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27The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
28In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
— Proverbs 14:29 —
30A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
31He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.