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“What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“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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“Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“In active obedience, we worship God by doing what pleases God; but by passive obedience, we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.”
― The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
― The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
“when the heart of a man has nothing to do, but to be busy about creature-comforts, every little thing troubles him; but when the heart is taken up with the weighty things of eternity, with the great things of eternal life, the things of here below that disquieted it before are things now of no consequence to him in comparison with the other-how things fall out here is not much regarded by him, if the one thing that is necessary is provided for.”
― The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
― The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
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