There is so much sweetness in our peace with God that it must so quiet the spirit of that man in whom it is that whatsoever is without shall never be able to make any great disturbance in his spirit, so great and excellent is the sweetness of that peace.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
If there is such a blessed peace between God and a true Christian, then he must be very peaceable in the world. He must be of a very peaceable disposition before men.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
When the creamy, choice thoughts of men and women are busied about earthly things, they mind earthly things in a sinful manner.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
This is the great difference between a wicked man and a godly man: one minds earthly things, and the other has his conversation in heaven.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Articles or rules for doctrine or practice in matters of religion to be imposed upon men, should be as few as may be; there is very great danger in the unnecessary multiplying them. This in all ages has caused division and exceeding disturbances in the churches of Christ.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Articles or rules for doctrine or practice in matters of religion to be imposed upon men, should be as few as may be; there is very great danger in the unnecessary multiplying them. This in all ages has caused division and exceeding disturbances in the churches of Christ.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Grace enables men to see love in the very frown of God’s face, and so come to receive contentment.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
We should study Christ, and praise and bless God, and have our hearts enlarged for Jesus Christ. This is the duty of believers to whom God has revealed Christ as wonderful… You should so walk before men as to manifest to all the world that your Savior is a wonderful Savior.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
We should study Christ, and praise and bless God, and have our hearts enlarged for Jesus Christ. This is the duty of believers to whom God has revealed Christ as wonderful… You should so walk before men as to manifest to all the world that your Savior is a wonderful Savior.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
God will sometimes be honored rather with the sufferings of men in high places than with their services.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
A man is like the Moon, he also has a dark side that he never shows to anyone.
—Taras Shevchenko
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
—Nikolai Gogol
A man who does evil is an enemy to himself: after all, he himself will taste the fruits of his evil.
—Taras Shevchenko
A bad man does and will continue to do evil no matter what.
—Taras Shevchenko
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
—Nikolai Gogol