Quotes from Jeremiah Burroughs

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

If you pour a pail full of water on the floor of your house, it makes a great show, but if you throw it into the sea, there is no sign of it. So, afflictions considered in themselves, we think are very great, but let them be considered with the sea of god's mercies we enjoy, and then they are not so much, they are nothing in comparison.