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

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.

We should study Christ, and praise and bless God, and have our hearts enlarged for Jesus Christ. This is the duty of believers to whom God has revealed Christ as wonderful, that in their conversations they should hold out the wonderful glory of Jesus Christ. You should so walk before men as to manifest to all the world that your Savior is a wonderful Savior

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

You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for a little while he was shaken, yet, at last, he was better for an affliction. But, a great many Godly men have been worse for their prosperity.

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.

When God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire?