THE IMPORTANCE OF THINKING WELL OF GOD

'...retain good thoughts of God, take heed of judging God to be a hard master, make good interpretations of his ways, and that is a special means to help you to contentment in all one's course.'  

Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, p.225. 

THE ONLY SOURCE OF HUMAN SATISFACTION

'...the reasons why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them - that is not the reason - but the reason is, because they are not things proportionate to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.' 

Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, p.91. 

CLAIMING OUR INHERITANCE

'...when you look into the book of God and find any promise there, you may make it your own; just as an heir who rides over a lot of fields and meadows says. This meadow is my inheritance, and this corn field is my inheritance, and the he sees a fine house, and says, This fine house is my inheritance. He looks at them with a different eye from a stranger who rides over those fields. A carnal heart reads the promises, and reads them merely as stories, not that he has any great interest in them. But every time a godly man reads the Scriptures (remember this when you are reading the Scripture) and there meets a promise, he ought to lay his hand upon it and say, This is part of my inheritance, it is mine, and I am to live upon it.' 

Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, p.83. 

THE SUFFICIENCY OF THE CONTENTMENT THE SCRIPTURES PROVIDE

'There is no condition that a godly man or woman can be in, but there is some promise or other in the Scripture to help him in that condition. And that is the way of his contentment, to go to the promises, and get from the promise, that which may supply.'

Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, p.69. 

THANKFULNESS IN SMALL THINGS

'Every bit of bread you eat, if you are a godly man or woman, Jesus Christ has bought it for you. You go to the market and buy your meat and drink with your money, but know that before you buy it, or pay money, Christ has bought it at the hand of God the Father with his blood. You have it at the hands of men for money, but Christ has bought it at the hand of his Father by his blood. Certainly it is a great deal better and sweeter now, though it is but a little.' 

Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, p.59. 

THE SECRET OF CONTENTMENT

'...I know nothing more effective for quieting a Christian soul and getting contentment than this, setting your heart to work in the duties of the immediate circumstances that you are in, and taking heed of your thoughts about other conditions as a mere temptation.' 

Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, p.52. 

BETTER AFFLICTION THAN PROSPERITY?

'You do not find one godly man who came out of affliction worse than he went into it; though for a while he was shaken, yet at last he was better for the affliction. But a great many godly men, you find, have been worse for their prosperity.' 

Jeremiah Burroughs, A Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, p.50. 

GOD ALONE SATIFIES

'A soul that is capable of God can be filled with nothing else but God; nothing but God can fill a soul that is capable of God.' 

Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, p.43. 

CONTENTMENT IN SUFFERING

'...contentment, the mingling of joy and sorrow, of gracious joy and gracious sorrow together. Grace teaches us how to moderate and to order an affliction so that there shall be a sense of it, and yet for all that contentment under it.' 

Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, p.41.