Quote by John Bunyan
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. – John Bunyan

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I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also. – John Bunyan

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Christianity
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Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them. – John Bunyan

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Temptation
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Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you. – John Bunyan

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There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. Theres no cure for the first, but success and theres no cure at all for the second. – Gordon Graham

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Contentment

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. – John Fowles

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Contentment

A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content. – Proverb

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Contentment

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. – Proverb

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Contentment

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I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didnt have to have 20 verses to get your point across. – Justin Townes Earle

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The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. – Robert Bork

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I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I dont mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it. – Koo Stark

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