Quotes About Sufficiency

I don't have enormous riches, but I'm comfortable.

As long as you know you have enough to live on, take some risks.

I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!

His grace is sufficient.

Consider the joke about the miserly farmer who fed his longsuffering cow less and less each day; but just when he thought that he had weaned the cow from eating altogether, the unfortunate animal died . . . showing that we do not need as many gods as early man believed does not show that we need no gods at all; that must be argued on its own merits.57

like my mother used to say, it's good to make ends meet but sometimes it's nice to have enough to tie a bow.

Si tu as pour moi un peu d'affection, cela me suffit / Car rien n'est plus fort que ce qui est vrai ; / Mais le soir est tombé et je suis terrifié de ne pas te voir. [95]

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

I feel 'The Night Circus' has a complete story arc in one book. I like it as a single volume. It feels complete to me, and I wouldn't want to stretch it out into something it's not.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

Maybe, I think, I don't have to be great at this; maybe I just have to be good enough.

A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.

She said, Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need? I said, It depends on what it means to need.

They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

And He provides for him from (sources) he never could imagine. And if anyone puts his trust in Allah, sufficient is (Allah) for him.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Kebahagiaan orang jang punja ialah mengamalkan kepunjaannya jang dipandangnja kurang dibutuhkannja kepada orang jang terlalu membutuhinja tapi tak kuasa mempunjainja.

Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt.

Going to bed without dinner is better than waking up in debt.

And yet this part of the story shows that God supplies our need in a way that is both extraordinary but also ordinary. The extraordinary: The flour and oil were never used up. The ordinary: There was just enough for each day. It was never a case of a hundred barrels of flour and oil being wasted before their eyes. The amount was small and always

there. Enough is enough. You do not need flour and oil for tomorrow; only for today. You can live only one day at a time. You can take only one bite at a time. What more could you cope with anyway? My dad's favorite verse was, "Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well" (Matthew 6:33). The next verse goes on to say, "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Money is kind of just like air - if you don't have air, you can't breathe. If you don't have money, I don't think you'll want to breathe - you won't want to live.

Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.