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One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances.

When God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire?

The disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God.

It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does.

The Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it.

To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory, and excellence of a Christian.

Our names ... are in the hands of God, Who will preserve them so far as He has use of them, and further we shall have no use of them ourselves.

There is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent ...

If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.

What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?

Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

It's certain that the thing a man's heart is most taken with and set upon is his God.

It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.

I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.

Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.

It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.

Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much:

Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!

It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.

[E]very comfort that the saints have in this world is an earnest penny to them of those eternal mercies that the Lord has provided for them.

that the strong beams of the sun of prosperity upon many men make them to be leprous.

It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness.