Quotes About Contentment

She's great company; she plays a mean hand of gin; and I like holding her hand almost as much as yours. What more do I need?

None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

What Ifs will either drive us to God and faith or they will drive us to worry and dependence on self. God gives peace and contentment; worry gives illness and misery.

Peace comes through acceptance.

Holy Father, forgive me for grumbling. I know I've sounded just like the Israelites. I long to dwell not on the If Onlys but on You. Make me wise like the old woodcutter — content with what I know, not perturbed by what I don't know.

Regardless of whether we live in the East or the West, whether we are rich or poor, we must find contentment with what God has given.

Greed builds a barrier that keeps us from becoming content with what God has given.

The word worry is derived from an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning "to strangle or choke." The stranglehold of worry keeps a woman from enjoying a life of contentment and peace.

If we don't accept God's portion for us, we will become women with spirits of discontent.

If we want to be women of contentment, we must choose to accept our portion, our assigned roles from God.

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

If your treasure is on earth, your heart will be on earth also, and therefore material things will rule you.

Contentment is essentially a matter of accepting from God's hand what He sends because we know that He is good and therefore it is good."5

Never allow yourself to complain about anything — not even the weather. Never picture yourself in any other circumstances or someplace else. Never compare your lot with another's. Never allow yourself to wish this or that had been otherwise. Never dwell on tomorrow — remember that [tomorrow] is God's, not ours.1

Ella's focus was eternal, and her focus led to an internal contentment.

Her tomorrows belonged to God. She had given them to Him. And because all her tomorrows were nestled in God's strong arms, she was free to live today. One day at a time she could make the right choices and grow to possess the holy habit of contentment. Ella's focus was eternal, and her focus led to an internal contentment.

Paul recognized that the source and strength of all Christian contentment is God Himself.

A quiet heart is content with what God gives.6

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

You can't miss what you've never had.

As the morning wore on, she was grateful

In the course of my fifty-six years I have had dealings with thousands of men of all sorts and conditions. I no longer have any curiosity about people.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt

Rather than compete for what was never meant for you . . . you would have the energy to discover what is yours.