Quotes About Contentment

Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.

My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.

God bless you and utterly satisfy your heart...with Himself.

He knows what He is doing with me. I cannot always understand His way, but I am content in the realization that He knows what is best. That is surrender.

The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.

I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.

God asks little, but He gives much.

Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.

There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.

You must concentrate on pleasing God alone, and if He is pleased, you must be pleased.

Without worship, we go about miserable.

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . .