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the gleanings of a Christian are better than the vintage of a reprobate. "A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked."Andrew Gray
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Paul saith, "Godliness with contentment, is great gain." It is by faith that a Christian enjoys God, it is by love that he enjoys his neighbor, and by contentment that he enjoys himself.

Andrew Gray

Godliness

We conceive it is so excellent a grace, this grace of contentment, that it is indeed a compound of these five graces: faith, humility, patience, hope, and mortification. In a manner, contentment is the result of all these exercising themselves in one; and except these be in a most vigorous exercise, absolute contentment is not easily to be attained.

Andrew Gray

Contentment

We may say, if a Christian made the world but his servant, a little would content him; but if once he make the world his master and lord of his affections, then his desires will be infinite and cannot at all be satisfied.

Andrew Gray

Contentment

We should keep a register in our minds of all the eminent blessings and deliverances we have met with; some whereof have been so conveyed that we might clearly perceive they were not the issues of chance, but the gracious effects of the divine favor and the signal returns of our prayers.

Life of God in the Soul of Man, 112

Henry Scougal

Blessings

Common and ordinary blessings once lost and found again become extraordinary.

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Blessings

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

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Blessings

A true believer looks on religion, not as a burden which he must be forced to endure—but a privilege which is his happiness to enjoy.

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