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“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!”

“Lord, I see there is more to Christian contentment than I thought there was, and I have been far from learning this lesson. Indeed, I have only learned my ABC in this lesson of contentment. I am only in the lower form in Christ’s school if I am in it at all.” pp. 29-30

And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”

Luke 5:31-32

“ There is more treasure in the poorest body’s house, if he is godly, than in the house of the greatest man in the world, who has his fine hangings and finally-wrought beds and chairs and couches and cupboards of plate and the like. Whatever he has, he has not so much treasure in it as there is in the house of the poorest righteous soul.” p. 23

“Sometimes he was like a man in flight, but running towards the enemy, desperate to feel upon his vanishing body the blows that would prove his being; desperate to imprint upon his sad conformity the mark of real purpose, desperate perhaps, as Leclerc had hinted, to abdicate his conscience in order to discover God.” p. 112