Quotes About Sufficiency

Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be.

When things aren't working, the natural inclination is to throw more at the problem. More people, time, and money. All that ends up doing is making the problem bigger. The right way to go is the opposite direction: Cut back.

Good enough is fine A

You need less than you think

once is never the beginning of enough, is it

The only way to not think about money is to have a great deal of it. You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Having money is a way of being free of money.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us, but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trup.

Who is sufficient for these things? Jesus knew the insufficiency of His instruments. Therefore, having invested them with official authority, He proceeded to speak of an investment with another kind of power, without which the official must needs be utterly ineffectual. "And, behold," He said, "I send the promise of my Father upon you; but tarry ye at Jerusalem till ye be clothed with power from on high.

He that loves and trusts God possesses God. He that possesses God has enough for earth. He that possesses God has enough for heaven.

Worthiness or unworthiness is to be swept clean out of the field, and I am to be content to be a pauper, to owe everything to what I have done nothing to procure, and to cast myself on the sole, all-sufficient mercy of God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor. 12:9 ESV).

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

The pressures were wrong. There was just enough money and not enough time.

I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength" (Philippians 4:11–13).

Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to give anybody.

As my dear Baroness Lehzen used to say, 'Enough is as good as a feast.

Hoarding is both unnecessary and an affront to God, who is perfectly capable of providing abundantly for those who trust in him.

If God be not enough for you, you will never have enough. Turn to him more, and know him better, if you would have a satisfied mind. -Directions Against Sinful Desires and Discontent.

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.

God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? ("Disappearing Act")