Affliction Quote by Jeremiah Burroughs Download Open image “Your mercies are more than your afflictions.” — Jeremiah Burroughs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affliction Compassion Inspirational Love Mercy
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure… — Christopher Love Copy Share Image
Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above. — John Angell James Copy Share Image
Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Afflictions quicken us to prayer. It is a pity it should be so; but experience testifies, that a long course of ease and prosperity,… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. — William Shakespeare 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 Gospel, and… — Jeremiah Burroughs 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 believers to… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall. — Jeremiah Burroughs 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 it. — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him. — Jeremiah Burroughs 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 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 he prospers… — Jeremiah Burroughs 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 a little… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy. — Jeremiah Burroughs 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 to suffer… — Jeremiah Burroughs 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 unto the… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image