Jeremiah Burroughs Quotes

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• Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are…
• When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any…
• Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when he prospers them…
• Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!
• My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of…
• Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much:
• To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.
• I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.
• It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown…
• Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
• I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against…
• But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes me content not…
• A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.
• Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship…
• Your mercies are more than your afflictions.
• Our names... are in the hands of God, Who will preserve them so far as He has use of them, and further we shall have…
• If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them: so if friends increase, set not your hearts upon them, but trust in the living God,…
• You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for a little while…
• We should study Christ, and praise and bless God, and have our hearts enlarged for Jesus Christ. This is the duty of believers to whom…
• Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to…

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