Quotes by : Jeremiah Burroughs

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to....

Now I say that a heart that has no grace, and is not instructed in this mystery of contentment, knows....

Christian, how did you enjoy comfort before? Was the creature anything to you but a conduit, a pipe,....

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

A godly man in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with can see the glory of heaven before....

So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have,....

Do not think, Oh, that I were delivered from all these afflictions and troubles here in this world! If....

As in a tree, there is more sap in an Arm of the tree, than in a little sprig; but the sprig hath the....

Thou hast gone on in all thy life hitherto, ever since thou wast born, in a continual opposition to God....

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