Be sure of your call to every business you go about. Though it is the least business, be sure of your call to it; then, whatever you meet with, you m….

Your mercies are more than your afflictions..

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

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 ….

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposa….

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,….

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world..

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 reveal….

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

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

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 en….

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 re….

What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?.

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

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 p….

the Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it..

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

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

I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace….

Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until yo….

Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal lif….