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.

My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.

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.

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

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

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