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

Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.

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.

If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them: so if friends increase, set not your hearts upon them, but trust in the living God, let it be the living God that you rest on even for all outward things in this world.

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

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

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.