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

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.

Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

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.

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

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.

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