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“Oh, what an ugly face has this sin of murmuring and discontentedness!”

“If I had, perhaps some man thinks, only two or three hundred a year, then I should be well off…But a gracious heart says that if he had ten hundred thousand times so much a year, it would not satisfy him; if he had…all the excellences of the world, it could not satisfy him; and yet this man can sing, and be…joyful when he has only a crust of bread and a little water. Surely religion is a great mystery!”

“If I become content by having my desire satisfied, that is only self-love, but when I am contented with the hand of God, and am willing to be at his disposal, that comes from my love to God.“ Ch. 5 “The Excellence of Contentment”