Quotes About Contentment

He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of food and drink.

The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

I want to so live that God doesn't have to have to give me one minute's

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.

Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything.

You know what, I'm probably one of the most blessed people there's ever been, and I thank God for it.

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.

The slave of the belly ponders the menu with which to celebrate the feast. The servant of God, however, thinks of the graces that may enrich him.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."

It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

God promises to meet our needs, not our greeds.

I swear to god; happiness is the best makeup.

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

There is a place that God has specifically designed for you where all your needs will be supplied, where you'll be happy and fulfilled, and where you'll be using your gifts and talents to the full.

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.

I've been blessed. God's looked out for me, so, I'm happy.