The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment Quotes

“It is below the expectation that God has of Christians, for he not only expects them to be patient in hardships, but even to rejoice and triumph in them.  When God expects you to rejoice, you have not even gotten so far as contentedness!”
― Rob Summers, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment: Abridged and in Modern English

“So, Christian, what have you gotten from being a believer?  What can you do by faith?  You can in every circumstance give up your worries to God and commit your paths to him in peace.  Faith can do this.”
― Rob Summers, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment: Abridged and in Modern English

“Contentment provides steady, reliable comforts to the soul.  It keeps on burning like a ship’s lantern at sea, no matter what storms or tempests may come.”
― Rob Summers, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment: Abridged and in Modern English

“The Lord knows how to arrange things better than I do.  He sees further than I do.  I only see the present, but the Lord sees into the far future.  And how do I know but that, if not for this misfortune, I would have been lost?  I know that God’s love suits a time of troubles just as well as it does prosperity.”  A contented person reasons in this way.”
― Rob Summers, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment: Abridged and in Modern English

“Genuine spiritual contentment is a combination of all graces, of many spiritual blessings from God, such as faith, humility, love, patience, wisdom, and hope.”
― Rob Summers, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment: Abridged and in Modern English

“Being content because of some external matter is like wearing clothes warmed by the fire.  But being content due to an inward attitude of the soul is like the warmth that a man’s clothes have from the natural heat of his body.”
― Rob Summers, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment: Abridged and in Modern English

“Consider the scripture:  “You shall not see wind nor shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water…”  (II Kings 3:17).  God wants us to depend on him though we cannot imagine how relief may come;”
― Rob Summers, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment: Abridged and in Modern English

“Certainly, looking for help with submission and holy resignation of spirit is not opposed to the quietness which God requires in a contented spirit.  This means we seek to be delivered when, and as, and how God wills, so that our wills are melted into his.”
― Rob Summers, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment: Abridged and in Modern English