"When [the saints] perform actions to God, then……" — Jeremiah Burroughs
"When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment."
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Jeremiah Burroughs
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23 Quotes by Jeremiah Burroughs
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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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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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A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.
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