Quotes About Contentment

I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me.

We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means.

Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

Smiling heals the soul and fills the heart with bliss.

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

Being a human is a great power. One can obtain everything. However, it is the greed that harasses him.

If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.

With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."

Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.

may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.

The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.

Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.

If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

Do not give your heart to that which does not satisfy your heart.