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• Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires…
• When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come…
• Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when…
• Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!
• My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not…
• Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much:
• To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.
• I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.
• It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as…
• Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
• I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the…
• But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes…

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