"Our names... are in the hands of God,……" — Jeremiah Burroughs
"Our names... are in the hands of God, Who will preserve them so far as He has use of them, and further we shall have no use of them ourselves."
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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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But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then…
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