When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you come near the shore and can see a certain land-mark, that contents you greatly. A godly man, in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with, can see the glory of heaven before him and so contents himself. 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 BurroughsWhen God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire?
Jeremiah BurroughsI 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 Burroughsthe Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it.
Jeremiah BurroughsMy 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.
Jeremiah Burroughs