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WISDOM AND SOUND ADVICE FROM THE TORAH

Patience

Be still be fore the Lord and wait pa tient ly for Him; do not fret
when men suc ceed in their ways, when they car ry out their
wick ed schemes. (Psalms, 37:7)

I wait ed pa tient ly for the Lord; He turned to me and heard
my cry. (Psalms, 40:1)

A hot-tem pered man stirs up dis sen sion, but a pa tient man
calms a quar rel. (Proverbs, 15:18)

Better a pa tient man than a war ri or, a man who con trols his
tem per than one who takes a city. (Proverbs, 16:32)

A man's wis dom gives him pa tience; it is to his glo ry to over -
look an of fense. (Proverbs, 19:11)

The end of a mat ter is bet ter than its be gin ning, and pa tience
is bet ter than pride. (Ecclesiastes, 7:8)

A man's spir it sus tains him in sick ness, but a crushed spir it
who can bear? (Proverbs, 18:14)

Loyalty

Let love and faith ful ness nev er leave you; bind them around
your neck, write them on the tab let of your heart. Then you
will win fa vor and a good name in the sight of God and man.
(Proverbs, 3:3-4)

They would not be like their fore fa thers—a stub born and re -
bel lious gen er a tion, whose hearts were not loy al to God,
whose spir its were not faith ful to Him. (Psalms, 78:8)

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