Quotes About Contentment

Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

If God is enough for you, then you'll always have enough, because you'll always have God.

We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.

I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.

If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty.

I mean, God, I'm so lucky right now with the opportunities that I've had. There's nothing to worry about

Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.

Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.

Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.

There is a God! the sky his presence shares, His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth, Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.

Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day after partridges, or a little rubber ball? wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?

How does God deal with your bitter heart? He reminds you that what you have is more important than what you don't have. You still have your relationship with God. No one can take that.

Every gift of God is to be enjoyed as from God and not like a God.

Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.

If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.

I don't need to be 19 years old or starve myself for some weight or turn men's heads down that road. And thank God I finally know that.

...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'

William Makepeace Thackeray