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

Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.

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

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.

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

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

You may think you find peace in Christ when you have no outward troubles, but is Christ your peace when the Assyrian comes into the land, when the enemy comes?...Jesus Christ would be peace to the soul when the enemy comes into the city, and into your houses.