“Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.”
Jeremiah Burroughs
Category: Quotes
Meditate on Mediation
“He is no Christian who lives not much in the meditation of the mediation of Christ, and the especial acts of it. Nay; if our minds are not fill with these things–if Christ does not dwell plentifully in our hearts by faith–if our souls are not possessed with them . . . we are strangers to the life of faith.”
John Owen
Faith Decay
“When men begin to satisfy themselves with general hopes of mercy in God, without a continual respect for the interposition and mediation of Christ . . . there is a decay in their faith and proportionally in all other evangelic graces also.”
John Owen
Heart Loves
“What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.”
Thomas Cranmer
Murmuring
“Murmuring is the rising up of oneself against God. It sets oneself against God as if I am wiser than He.”
Thomas Watson
Still Think
“We cannot pray in love and live in hate and still think that we are worshiping God.”
A.W. Tozer
Free Act
“He [God] is good and does good––yea, he does good because he is good, and for no other reason––not by the necessity of nature, but by the intervention of a free act of his will.”
John Owen
Steadfast
“Being steadfast in belief does not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.”
John Owen