Jeremiah Burroughs Quotes

• 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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  Spiritual, Contentment, Desire

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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.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Christian, Wise, Sweet

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.2, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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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.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Heaven, World, Affliction

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.32, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• No encontrarán un solo hombre piadoso que haya salido de una aflicción peor que cuando entró en ella. Aunque por un tiempo fue sacudido, al final fue mejor por la aflicción. Pero, muchos hombres piadosos han sido peores por su prosperidad.

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  Godly, Men, Affliction

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• Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

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  Affliction, Mercy

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• 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. Nothing in the world will quiet the heart so much as this: when I meet with any cross, I know I am where God would have me, in my place and calling; I am about the work that God has set me.

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  Heart, Calling, World

  Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.241, Lulu.com

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• 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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  Heart, World, Riches

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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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  Doe, Deals

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2013). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.179, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We should study Christ, and praise and bless God, and have our hearts enlarged for Jesus Christ. This is the duty of believers to whom God has revealed Christ as wonderful, that in their conversations they should hold out the wonderful glory of Jesus Christ. You should so walk before men as to manifest to all the world that your Savior is a wonderful Savior

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  Jesús, Corazón, Hombres

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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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  Doe, Worship, Obedience

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.49, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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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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  Soul, Contentment, World

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.35, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.

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  Cielo

  Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.72, Lulu.com

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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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  Heart, Noble, Mercy

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• 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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  Corazón, Hombres, Pensamiento

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.21, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Así, un hombre piadoso se pregunta en su cruz que no es más, un hombre malvado se pregunta su cruz es tanto.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Godly, Men, Wicked

  Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.172, Lulu.com

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

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Heart, Desire, Done

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2013). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.171, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Cuando ustedes los marineros ven el puerto delante de ustedes, aunque estaban muy preocupados antes de que pudieran ver alguna tierra, sin embargo, cuando se acercan a la orilla y pueden ver cierta marca de tierra, eso los satisface grandemente. Un hombre piadoso, en medio de las olas y tormentas que encuentra, puede ver la gloria del cielo delante de él, y así se satisface. Una gota de la dulzura del cielo es suficiente para quitar toda la amargura de todas las aflicciones del mundo.

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  Godly, Men, Land

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.32, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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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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  Heart, Doe, Looks

  Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.222, Lulu.com

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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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  Christian, Excellence, Contentment

  Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.15, Lulu.com

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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!

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Men, Evil, Affliction

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.58, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?

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  Duty, Circumstances

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.17, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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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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  Jesus, Thinking, Land

  Jeremiah Burroughs (1651). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment ...”, p.71

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• 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.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Growing Up, Heart, Holiness

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• 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

  Grace, Sin

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.63, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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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

  Wall, Men, Temptation

  Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.140, Lulu.com

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