Jeremiah Burroughs Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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.

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

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#5. Psalm 106:24, 25: 'Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word; but murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord. Therefore he lifted up his hand against them to overthrow them in the wilderness.

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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.

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#9. 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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#10. 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.

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#11. Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.

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#12. It's certain that the thing a man's heart is most taken with and set upon is his God.

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#13. Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.

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#14. When God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire?

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#15. 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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#16. that the strong beams of the sun of prosperity upon many men make them to be leprous.

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#17. 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.

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#18. Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances.

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#19. 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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#20. 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.

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#21. 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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#22. To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory, and excellence of a Christian.

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#23. [E]very comfort that the saints have in this world is an earnest penny to them of those eternal mercies that the Lord has provided for them.

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

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#25. I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.

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#26. 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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#27. I find a sufficiency of satisfaction in my own heart, through the grace of Christ that is in me. Though I have not outward comforts and worldly conveniences to supply my necessities, yet I have a sufficient portion between Christ and my soul abundantly to satisfy me in every condition.

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#28. 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.

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#29. There is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent ...

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#30. Our names ... are in the hands of God, Who will preserve them so far as He has use of them, and further we shall have no use of them ourselves.

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#31. Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

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#32. What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?

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#33. 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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#34. 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.

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#35. A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

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

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#37. 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.

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#38. It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness.

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#39. 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.

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#40. You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for a little while he was shaken, yet, at last, he was better for an affliction. But, a great many Godly men have been worse for their prosperity.

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