When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you come near the shore and can see a certain land-mark, that contents you greatly. A godly man, in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with, can see the glory of heaven before him and so contents himself. One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

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

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

It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.

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

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

It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.