October 27 – “…contentment is an inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit-the whole soul, judgment, thoughts, will, affections and all are satisfied and quiet.”

“Sometimes, a great deal of disturbance is involved in getting contentment into people’s judgments, that is, to satisfy their judgment about their condition. If you come to many, whom the hand of God is upon perhaps in a grievous manner, and seek to satisfy them and tell them they have no cause to be so [...]

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August 19 – “Those who take that crabbed tree…shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird or sails to a ship.”

“O how sweet are the sufferings of Christ for Christ! God forgive them that raise an ill report upon the sweet cross of Christ. It is but our weak and dim eyes, and our looking only to the black side, that makes us mistake. Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and [...]

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Christ suffered before us

“Christ takes us through no darker rooms than He went through before.” Richard Baxter

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Glorify God in the fire

“O may God put me into one furnace after another, that my soul may be transparent, that I may see God as He is. My brethren, we need to be purged. How apt we are to want to go to heaven upon a featherbed…the grand thing is to learn how to glorify God in the fire.” [...]

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