Long suffering to grow towards the end goal: health and peace

John Oman, "Grace and Personality"

    "To deliver the soul from the sin which is its ruin and bestow on it the hoiness which is its health and peace, is the end of all God's dealings with His children; and precisely because he cannot merely impose, but must enable us to attain it ourselves, if we are really to have the liberty of His children, the way He must take is long and arduous"