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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…
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When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come…
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Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when…
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Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!
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My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not…
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Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much:
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To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.
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I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.
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It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as…
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Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
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I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the…
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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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In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems…
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Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when…
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Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?
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If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.
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Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
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A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.
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since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid
— E E Cummings
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In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If…
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I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.
— Marianne Williamson
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I was doing science," Giddon said. "He threw a bean." "I was testing the impact of a bean upon water," Bann said.…
— Kristin Cashore
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If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
— Christopher Morley
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