"Now this is a mystery to a carnal……" — Jeremiah Burroughs
"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 and makes them rich, but they think God loves them not when he afflicts them. That is a mystery, but grace instructs men in that mystery, grace enables men to see love in the very frown of God's face, and so come to receive contentment."
—
Jeremiah Burroughs
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
23 Quotes by Jeremiah Burroughs
Jeremiah Burroughs has 23 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from…
-
When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When…
-
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever…
-
My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you…
-
Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is…
-
To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.
-
I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.
-
It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian…
-
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
-
I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much…
-
But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then…
-
A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.
See all 23 quotes by Jeremiah Burroughs »
More Afflicts Quotes
This quote is filed under Afflicts Quotes,
one of 33 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will…
— Joseph Hall
-
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One…
— Jules de Goncourt
-
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
-
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure,…
— Finley Peter Dunne
-
I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing.…
— Fred Saberhagen
-
The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware…
— Stephen Vizinczey
-
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
— Agnes Repplier
-
It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns…
— Kenny Smith
-
I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of…
— Pope Francis
-
Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions, and it afflicts our mind almost every day. To solve…
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
-
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to…
— Fay Weldon
See all 33 Afflicts Quotes »