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.
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.
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."Works, 398