Quotes About Contentment

All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.

He that seeks here any other thing but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.

Remember, if God doesn't give you what you want, that's because it's not what you need.

From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.

It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.

By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.

God is waiting to satisfy us, yet His goodness will not satisfy us if we are already full of other things.

Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can't have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen.

Be happy you guys. Be proud! You know what you are: you're God's frozen people.

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.

Thank God for the things that I do not own.

You plus God equals enough.

The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God.

A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.

The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.

God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.

I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.

God gives quietness at last.

God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.