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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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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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I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.
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It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as…
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Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
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I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the…
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But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes…
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes…
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Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again…
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