"Your mercies are more than your afflictions." — Jeremiah Burroughs

"Your mercies are more than your afflictions."

— Jeremiah Burroughs

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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…
Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves…
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…

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More Affliction Quotes

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. — Abu Bakr
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested… — James A. Baldwin
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into… — Richard Cecil
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never… — Victor Hugo
What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when… — Unknown Author
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to… — Tryon Edwards
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. — John Bunyan
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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