"But if I have once overcome my heart,……" — Jeremiah Burroughs
"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 only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me."
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Jeremiah Burroughs
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23 Quotes by Jeremiah Burroughs
Jeremiah Burroughs has 23 quotes on this site.
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Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from…
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When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When…
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Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves…
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Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever…
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My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you…
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Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is…
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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…
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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…
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A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.
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Does this mean we will always understand our challenges? Won't all of us, sometime, have reason to ask, 'O God,…
— Robert D. Hales
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All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth.
— Oren Lyons
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Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take…
— Leigh Hunt
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All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.
— Chief Seattle
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Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
— Gautama Buddha
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Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
— Marcus Aurelius
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On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have…
— Epictetus
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
— Alexander Smith
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No great inner event befalls those who summon it not
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from…
— Gautama Buddha
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I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged…
— Sophia Loren
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