Patience and Humility: A Handbook for Christians

Find lasting happiness through the two virtues that lead to all others.

This book shows how to develop these two key virtues, no matter how difficult your circumstances may be.

You'll learn why Jesus said that to save your life you must first lose it, and you'll come to see how the self-surrender in humility and patience is guaranteed to bring you lasting peace and happiness.

From this simple book you'll learn many things:

• Ten ways you can start acquiring patience today
• Why humility is the foundation of our Christian Faith
• The startling reason why God rejects the proud
• The four ways that patience heals the soul
• The Lord's antidote for feeling easily hurt or disappointed
• How to keep minor troubles from overwhelming you
• The secret rewards of humility that only the humble know
• Five obstacles to virtue, and how to overcome them
• Why troubles may be your most valuable possessions
• How faith itself depends on the virtue of humility
• Three obstacles to prayer - and a simple way to wipe them out
• And many other truths to make your life more joyful

William Ullathorne (1806 to 1889) was a missionary and bishop whose engaging, practical writings help Christians learn the virtues that lead to God.