A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy. — Jeremiah Burroughs Acknowledge Copy Share Image
One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in… — Jeremiah Burroughs Affliction Copy Share Image
It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as… — Jeremiah Burroughs Christian Copy Share Image
I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him. — Jeremiah Burroughs Consider Copy Share Image
It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will. — Jeremiah Burroughs Intelligence Copy Share Image
Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much: — Jeremiah Burroughs Cross Copy Share Image
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall. — Jeremiah Burroughs Men Copy Share Image
the Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing… — Jeremiah Burroughs Doe Copy Share Image
I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the… — Jeremiah Burroughs Discontented Copy Share Image
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly… — Jeremiah Burroughs Blessing Copy Share Image
“Psalm 106:24, 25: 'Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word; but murmured in their tents, and hearkened not… — Jeremiah Burroughs Despised Copy Share Image
You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for… — Jeremiah Burroughs Affliction Copy Share Image
You may think you find peace in Christ when you have no outward troubles, but is Christ your peace when the Assyrian… — Jeremiah Burroughs Assyrians Copy Share Image
Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when… — Jeremiah Burroughs Contentment Copy Share Image
Be sure of your call to every business you go about. Though it is the least business, be sure of your call… — Jeremiah Burroughs Business Copy Share Image
We should study Christ, and praise and bless God, and have our hearts enlarged for Jesus Christ. This is the duty of… — Jeremiah Burroughs Believer Copy Share Image
When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come… — Jeremiah Burroughs Action Copy Share Image
To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian. — Jeremiah Burroughs Christian Copy Share Image
What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into? — Jeremiah Burroughs Circumstances Copy Share Image
When God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire? — Jeremiah Burroughs Desire Copy Share Image
the disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God. — Jeremiah Burroughs Disorder Copy Share Image
“that the strong beams of the sun of prosperity upon many men make them to be leprous.” — Jeremiah Burroughs Wealth Copy Share Image
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction! — Jeremiah Burroughs Affliction Copy Share Image
“[E]very comfort that the saints have in this world is an earnest penny to them of those eternal mercies that the Lord… — Jeremiah Burroughs Comfort Copy Share Image
Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do… — Jeremiah Burroughs Active Copy Share Image
Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires… — Jeremiah Burroughs Add Copy Share Image
But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes… — Jeremiah Burroughs Grace Copy Share Image
Our names... are in the hands of God, Who will preserve them so far as He has use of them, and further… — Jeremiah Burroughs Hands Copy Share Image
If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them: so if friends increase, set not your hearts upon them, but trust in… — Jeremiah Burroughs Friendship Copy Share Image
Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind… — Jeremiah Burroughs Able Copy Share Image
My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not… — Jeremiah Burroughs Brethren Copy Share Image
“when the heart of a man has nothing to do, but to be busy about creature-comforts, every little thing troubles him; but… — Jeremiah Burroughs Eternal life Copy Share Image
When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you… — Jeremiah Burroughs Affliction Copy Share Image
“I find that the same Hebrew word which signifies to lodge, to abide, signifies to murmur. They use one word for both,… — Jeremiah Burroughs Murmur Copy Share Image
“Now I say that a heart that has no grace, and is not instructed in this mystery of contentment, knows of no… — Jeremiah Burroughs Attitude Copy Share Image
Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly… — Jeremiah Burroughs Eternal life Copy Share Image
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