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

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

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.

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

Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.

When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you come near the shore and can see a certain land-mark, that contents you greatly. A godly man, in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with, can see the glory of heaven before him and so contents himself. One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.