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Quotes About Contentment

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
~ Saint Augustine
What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy?
~ Solanus Casey
A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.
~ Ellen G. White
Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within.
~ Robert Murray M'Cheyne
As we interact with God, we'll find ourselves more satisfied in Him and less satisfied with things much less important.
~ John Wimber
A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.
~ Frederick Buechner
When I count other people's blessings I lose sight of mine.
~ Andy Stanley
The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
~ J. C. Ryle
Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.
~ Nathalia Crane
When you are hunger for God, He will fill you.
~ Jentezen Franklin
Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
~ Barbra Streisand
When you have nothing left but God, you become aware that God is enough.
~ Maude Royden
A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.
~ Daniel Ortega
We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent
~ J. I. Packer
Perhaps we don't want to come face to face with the unsurrendered areas of our lives. We like our lives just as they are, even if it is less than God's best.
~ Sandy Smith
There is much more of God available than we have ever known or imagined, but we have become so satisfied with where we are and what we have that we don't press in for God's best.
~ Tommy Tenney
He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to do is reach for it.
~ Jon Krakauer
Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.
~ John Wesley
Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone.
~ Charles Wesley
When you're reminded that God owes you nothing you find yourself more grateful and less entitled.
~ Lecrae
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
~ Saadi
But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.
~ David Platt