Showing posts with label Contentment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Contentment. Show all posts

Jeremiah Burroughs on Contentment

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, February 7, 2020 at 7:34 AM

“Contentment is an INTERNAL thing. It lies within a man; not in the bark—but the root. Contentment has both its fountain and stream in the soul. The beams of comfort which a contented man has, do not arise from foreign comforts—but from within.”

Jeremiah Burroughs



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Jeremiah Burroughs on Contentment

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, January 31, 2020 at 6:32 AM

“Contentment is a DIVINE thing. It becomes ours, not by acquisition—but as a gift from God. It is a slip taken off from the tree of life, and planted by the Spirit of God in the soul. It is a fruit that grows not in the garden of human learning—but is of a heavenly birth.”

Jeremiah Burroughs


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J. C. Ryle on Contentment

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 5:30 AM

“To be content is to be independent. He is the independent man who hangs on no created things for comfort, and has God for his portion.”

J. C. Ryle


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Jeremiah Burroughs on the Need of God When Prosperous

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , , | Posted On Friday, April 19, 2019 at 7:23 AM

"Many men and women think they have need of God in their affliction: during such times they depend greatly upon God.  Yes, but you should depend upon God just as much if you owned the whole world as you would if you were the poorest beggar in the world."

Jeremiah  Burroughs


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John Mason on Contentment

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, May 18, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“Neither contentment nor discontentment arises from the outward condition, but from the inward disposition.”

John Mason


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Octavius Winslow on Contentment

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 5:30 AM

“Let this precious truth, "My times are in your hand," divest your mind of all needless, anxious care for the present or the future. Exercising simple faith in God, "don't be anxious about anything." "Be content with such things as you have, for he has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you." Learn to be content with your present lot, with God's dealings with, and his disposal of you. You are just where his providence has, in its inscrutable but all-wise and righteous decision, placed you.”

Octavius Winslow


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Jeremiah Burroughs on Contentment in Ones Circumstances

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 5:30 AM

“This is the way of contentment. There are these circumstances that I am in, with many wants: I want this and the other comfort - well, how shall I come to be satisfied and content? A carnal heart thinks, I must have my wants made up or else it is impossible that I should be content. But a gracious heart says, ‘What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?”
Jeremiah Burroughs


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William Ames on Contentment and Joy

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 5:53 AM

"In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor."

William Ames


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J.C. Ryle on Contentment

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, December 2, 2016 at 5:30 AM

“Nothing is cheaper than good advice. Everybody fancies he can give his neighbor good counsel and tell him exactly what he ought to do. Yet to practice the lesson that heads this paper is very hard. To talk of contentment in the day of health and prosperity is easy enough; but to be content in the midst of poverty, sickness, trouble, disappointments, and losses is a state of mind to which very few can attain."
J.C. Ryle


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John Mason on Contentment

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 5:30 AM

"Humility is the mother of contentment."
John Mason


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Jeremiah Burroughs on Contentment

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 5:30 AM

“Not only must the tongue hold its peace: the soul must be silent.  Many may sit silently, refraining from discontented expressions, yet inwardly they are bursting with discontent.  This shows a complicated disorder and great perversity in their hearts.  Notwithstanding their outward silence, God hears the peevish,18 fretful language of their souls.  A shoe may be smooth and neat outside, while inside it pinches the flesh. Outwardly, there may be great calmness and stillness, yet within, amazing confusion, bitterness, disturbance, and vexation.”

Jeremiah Burroughs


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Jeremiah Burroughs on Contentment

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 5:30 AM

“To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.”

Jeremiah Burroughs


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Richard Steele on Contentment in Business

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, February 26, 2016 at 5:30 AM

“Contentment, as it relates to this subject, is a cheerful satisfaction in the place and calling wherein God hath set us.”
Richard Steele
Speaking on ones trade
(From: The Religious Tradesman)


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William Ames on Contentment

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, November 6, 2015 at 5:30 AM

“The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given”

William Ames


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Jeremiah Burroughs on Contentment

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, July 1, 2013 at 6:59 AM

"It is a good sign that grace and truth are working in your heart if you judge this to be the better thing. That is, it's better to know how to honor God with those good things I have than to know how I can get more.  It's better to know how I might behave myself in the enjoyment of those good things God has given me than to know how to get more of those good things."
Jeremiah Burroughs


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Samuel Rutherford on Contentment in Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 7:30 AM

"Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself."
Samuel Rutherford


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Jeremiah Burroughs on Attaining Contentment

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 8:00 AM

"Consider but that we have but a little time in this world.  If you are godly you will never suffer but in this world......These afflictions are but for a moment."
Jeremiah Burroughs
(The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, Pg 211)


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Jeremiah Burroughs on Attaining Contentment

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 8:00 AM

"The consideration of the abundance of mercies that God bestows and we enjoy.  It is a saying of Luther:  "The sea of God's mercies should swallow up all our particulate afflictions."  Name any particule affliction that is upon you:  There is a sea of mercy to swallow it up.  If you pour a pailful 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."
Jeremiah Burroughs
(The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, Pg 209)


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Jeremiah Burroughs on Attaining Contentment

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, August 27, 2012 at 8:00 AM

"We should consider, in all out wants and inclinations to discontent, the greatness of the mercies that we have, and the meanness of the things we lack.  The things we lack, if we are godly, are things of very small moment in comparison to the things we have, and the things we have are things of very great moment."
Jeremiah Burroughs
(The Rare Jewel Of Christian Contentment, Pg 207)


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Jeremiah Burroughs on Contentment and Murmuring

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, August 24, 2012 at 8:00 AM

"As contentment argues much grace, and strong grace, and beautiful grace, so murmuring argues much corruption, and strong corruption, and very vile corruptions in your heart."
Jeremiah Burroughs
(The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, Pg 137)



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