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

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

Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when he prospers them and makes them rich, but they think God loves them not when he afflicts them. That is a mystery, but grace instructs men in that mystery, grace enables men to see love in the very frown of God's face, and so come to receive contentment.

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.

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

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.

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