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Jeremiah Burroughs Quotes
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“Christians miss a great deal of comfort which they might have from the particular promises in the gospel, if they would consider their connection to the root, the great Covenant that God has made with them in Christ.”
“Contentment is the inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, freely submitting to and taking pleasure in God's disposal in every condition.”
“Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.”
“Be sure of your call to every business you go about. Though it is the least business, be sure of your call to it; then, whatever you meet with, you may quiet your heart with this: I know I am where God would have me.”
“If I become content by having my desire satisfied, that is only self-love; but when I am contented with the hand of God and am willing to be at His disposal, that comes from my love to God.”
“A Christian comes to contentment, not so much by way of addition, as by way of subtraction.”
“One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.”
“Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!”
“You can never make a ship go steady by propping it outside; you know there must be ballast within the ship to make it go steady. So there is nothing outside us that can keep our hearts in a steady, constant way, but grace within the soul.”
“While I live in the world my condition is to be but a pilgrim, a stranger, a traveler, and a soldier.”
“A godly man has contentment by opening and letting out his heart to God.”
“In active obedience, we worship God by doing what pleases God; but by passive obedience, we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.”
“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.”
“I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.”
“The Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it.”
“So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have, but blessed be God, I have a contented heart which others have not.”
“I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.”
“If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.”
“To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory, and excellence of a Christian.”
“Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.”
“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.”
“You may think you find peace in Christ when you have no outward troubles, but is Christ your peace when the Assyrian comes into the land, when the enemy comes?”
“Since God is content with Himself alone, if you have Him, you may be content with Him alone.”
“It's certain that the thing a man's heart is most taken with and set upon is his God.”
“Thou hast gone on in all thy life hitherto, ever since thou wast born, in a continual opposition to God Himself, unto the infinite Lord, the eternal first being of all the world; thy life hath been nothing but enmity to this God.”
“A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.”
“Your mercies are more than your afflictions.”
“If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them: so if friends increase, set not your hearts upon them, but trust in the living God, let it be the living God that you rest on even for all outward things in this world.”
“It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.”
“Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.”