“This parlor is the heart of a man who was never sanctified by the sweet grace of the gospel. The dust is his sin and inward corruption which has defiled the whole man. The one who began to sweep at first is the law, but she who brought
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I just heard someone woke reference this analogy of the gospel as to why women must be the salvific gender (facepalm).
“One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.”
― The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
― The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
“So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have, but blessed be God, I have a contented heart which others have not.”
― The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
― The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
“Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.”
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“I find a sufficiency of satisfaction in my own heart, through the grace of Christ that is in me. Though I have not outward comforts and worldly conveniences to supply my necessities, yet I have a sufficient portion between Christ and my soul abundantly to satisfy me in every condition.”
― The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
― The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
“Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when he prospers them and makes them rich, but they think God loves them not when he afflicts them. That is a mystery, but grace instructs men in that mystery, grace enables men to see love in the very frown of God's face, and so come to receive contentment.”
― The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
― The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
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