"Temptations will no more prevail over a contented……" — Jeremiah Burroughs
"Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall."
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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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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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A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.
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More Brazen Quotes
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There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long…
— Albert Einstein
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Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but…
— Sam Lipsyte
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The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the…
— Pindar
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I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am…
— Sally Mann
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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
— Boris Pasternak
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Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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If civilization is in danger today... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to…
— Unknown Author
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Join the bold, the brazen, the unintimidated. Join not having excuses. Join the idea that fun is the source of…
— Bode Miller
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Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?
— Mark Vonnegut
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One side thinks the president'€™s request for war-making powers is too brazen and even reckless. The other side thinks it…
— Peter Baker
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Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of…
— John Milton
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