Jeremiah Burroughs Quotes

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Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.

Jeremiah Burroughs
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.

Jeremiah Burroughs
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. That is a mystery, but grace instructs men in that mystery, grace enables men to see love in the very frown of God's face, and so come to receive contentment.

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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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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?...Jesus Christ would be peace to the soul when the enemy comes into the city, and into your houses.

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My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.

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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.

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It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.

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Note this, I beseech you: 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.

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Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so 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 this makes me content not only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me.

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Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!

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The Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it.

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It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.

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One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

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The disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God.

Jeremiah Burroughs