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Jeremiah Burroughs has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Our names... are in the hands of God, Who will preserve them so far as He has use of them, and further…
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When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come…
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Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when…
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Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!
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My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not…
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Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much:
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To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.
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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures…
— Jules de Goncourt
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
— Agnes Repplier
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Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions, and it afflicts our mind almost every day. To solve the problem…
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do…
— Joseph Hall
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Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th'…
— Finley Peter Dunne
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