“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.”
Jeremiah Burroughs
Category: Quotes
One Side
“It is but one side of a Christian to endeavor to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavor to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both.”
Jeremiah Burroughs
Soul Worship
“You worship God . . . when you come to hear a sermon, or spend a half an hour or hour in prayer, or come to receive a sacrament. These are the acts of God’s worship, but they are only external acts of worship, to hear and pray and receive sacraments. But this is the soul’s worship, to subject itself thus to God. You who often will worship God by hearing, praying and receiving sacraments, and yet afterwards will be froward or discontented, know that God does not regard such worship, he will have the soul’s worship, in this the subjecting of the soul unto God. Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does. Now when I perform a duty, I worship God, I do what pleases God; why should I not as well worship God when I am pleased with what God does? ”
Jeremiah Burroughs
Battleground
“The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians. . .The ‘worship’ growing out of such a view of life is as far off center as the view itself––a sort of sanctified nightclub without the champagne and the dressed-up drunks.”
Bent on Saving
“So completely was Jesus bent on saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, he created the tree upon which he was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail him to the accursed wood.”
Octavius Winslow
100%
“There are many occasions in which love, if it is not absolutely 100% intolerant, at that point ceases to be real love.”
Sinclair Ferguson
Fully Persuaded
“My dear believer, if you feel tormented by sin within you and your holiness feels battered and spotted, be fully persuaded that He who has promised complete salvation is able to do it.”
Charles Spurgeon
T.V.
“How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don’t even have the strength to turn off your TV?”
Leonard Ravenhill