Hilary

“The cumulative testimony of the four Gospels is that when Jesus Christ sees the fallenness of the world all about him, his deepest impulse, his most natural instinct, is to move toward that sin and suffering, not away from it.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

“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.”
― Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

“It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does.”
― Jeremiah Burroughs, 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.”
― Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment