All Jeremiah Burroughs Quotes
- 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… Add
- 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… Action
- 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… Afflicts
- Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction! 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… Brethren
- Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much: Cross
- To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian. Christian
- I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him. Beseech
- 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… Been
- Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall. Brazen
- 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… Discontented
- 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… Befalls
- A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy. Acknowledge
- 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… Active
- Your mercies are more than your afflictions. Affliction
- 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… Far
- 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,… All
- 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… Affliction
- 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… All
- 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… Beginning
- Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every… Blessing
- You may think you find peace in Christ when you have no outward troubles, but is Christ your peace when the Assyrian comes into the… Assyrian
- Be sure of your call to every business you go about. Though it is the least business, be sure of your call to it; then,… Any