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Quotes About Contentment

I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
~ Karrine Steffans
God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?
~ Matthew Henry
The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
~ Oswald Chambers
Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.
~ Saint Augustine
If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.
~ Brother Lawrence
The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given
~ William Ames
God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!
~ Mignon McLaughlin
In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.
~ Sarada Devi
When God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire?
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.
~ John Piper
Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.
~ Bliss Carman
O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness
~ William Ellery Channing
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
~ William Law
God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure
~ Epicurus
Whatever you experience outwardly, take it within yourself and say 'I'm happy because I'm happy. I'm happy because God is in my heart.'
~ Goswami Kriyananda
God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes me content not only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.
~ Kevin DeYoung
Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.
~ Mother Teresa
Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.
~ Pablo Casals
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
~ Samuel Butler