Is God more patient with us than we are with ourselves?

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I think I’m a lot more patient with myself than God. That’s not a good thing.
 
I suspect you are absolutely correct. But at what point does He get “fed up” with us?
 
I observe the apparent lack of lightning strikes in my own life as a resounding “yes!”
 
Just think of the countless times a Catholic goes to Confession in his entire lifetime and God forgives him each time, while I know people who have difficulty forgiving the faults of others. I actually know someone who died of cancer but she never forgave her mother (who had wronged her), even up to her last breath. The mother was very devastated.
 
I am an impatient person by nature, and I spent many years not liking myself very much, acting out in various ways, and occasionally considering just dying and getting this mess called “life” overwith. I then spent more years committing significant sins.
My husband, a mere mortal man who wasn’t even a Catholic, was very patient with all of this c**p.
If my husband could be patient then I would think God would be even more patient.
And I am blessed by the patience of both of them.
 
I definitely agree that God is a loving patient God. The saddest thing for me to see is how people beat themselves up for everything they do or don’t do, and how others shake a finger at them using fear of God and sin to shame them. My true belief is that God wants us to love one another and pry/judge less.
 
Good remark! I wish I had read some answers.
What we need to know is that God’s patience has limits. And whenever one is tempted to commit a sin, one must know that it is possible that afterwards, God is exasperated and sends us directly to Hell.
 
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What we need to know is that God’s patience has limits. And whenever one is tempted to commit a sin, one must know that it is possible that afterwards, God is exasperated and sends us directly to Hell.
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How about not committing the sin because one loves God and one also sees that the sin is undesirable because it is a failure to love God or love one’s neighbor, and not out of fear that “God is exasperated and sends us directly to Hell”?

We’re going to sin, it is inevitable. And God could send us to Hell any old time he wished. But he wants to have a loving relationship with us. Why not work towards it on that basis? Think of Jesus on the cross, would you want to hurt him by smacking a nail into his hand or a thorn into his head? That for me makes it a lot easier to say, “No, I won’t do this sinful thing” than if I was just afraid that some wrathful God would send me off to Hell.
 
Do we kill ourselves when we displease ourselves? Luckily, most of us don’t. Yet God kills innocent humans everyday, one can only wonder what they did to annoy God.

So my answer is no. He’s not more patient, that’s just a clever rep he’s built for himself
 
God’s virtue should exceed our own since He is above all things. God has put up for me for a long time despite all my faults and relapses, so I would say that He is very patient. It can take but a mere word or action to get someone riled.
 
Yes that’s the ideal. But we are not yet totally perfect, and it is possible that in the face of a trial or temptation, we do not have enough passion to God to overcome it out by a pure love. So in such a situation, if one can get excited about not committing sin through the fear of punishment, that would be good.
 
I think I get the point you’re trying to make, but it is not really about God being exasperated. It’s about not presuming on God’s patience–ie we shouldn’t willfully commit sins while planning on repenting at some later time because God will patiently give us all the time we want. While God always grants us what we ask for if it is conducive to our salvation and never spurns a contrite heart, willfully delaying repentance is really none other than impenitence.
 
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