"To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian."
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"When God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire?"
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"But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes me content not only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me."
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"It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will."
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"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."
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"the Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it."
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"Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall."
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"the disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God."
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"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."
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"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."
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"When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. 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, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment."
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"Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!"
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