If better were within, better would come out.

It is distrust of God to be troubled about what is to come; impatience against God to be troubled with what is present; and anger at God to be troubled for what is past.

Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.

If better were within, better would come out.

Trouble is a thing that will come without our call, but true joy will not spring up without ourselves.