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

- Simon Patrick

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 troubl…

- Simon Patrick

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, …

- Simon Patrick

If better were within, better would come out.

- Simon Patrick