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.
Jeremiah BurroughsThus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.
Jeremiah BurroughsA noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.
Jeremiah BurroughsWhen God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire?
Jeremiah BurroughsWhen [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. 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, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.
Jeremiah Burroughs