Quotes About Sufficiency

The postdoc turns into an adjunct position. She makes almost nothing, but life requires little. Her budget is blessedly free of those two core expenses, entertainment and status.

Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make that happen yourself.

Why am I begging you, who parades your suffering over the ruins like a king in order to ensure that you will never be touched deeply, you who're always laughing.

My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.

But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

Force is incomplete and therefore has to be fed energy constantly. Power is total and complete in itself and requires nothing from outside.

If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of His glory and Christ of His sufficiency.

What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting - it has been found demanding, and not tried.

Love is enough, though the world be awaning.

Read ecologically, the psalm [Ps 104] claims God's biophilia as a model for humanity's role and presence in the world. Delighting in creation has nothing to do with exploiting the world for the common greed. Rather, it has all to do with receiving the world's abundance for the common good, a sufficiency to be shared, not hoarded.

If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

The economy as it is currently structured would grind to a halt if we ever looked at our stuff and simply declared, "It is enough. I am happy with what I have.

Anything that exceeds our need becomes worldly, "Egyptian," something of Pharaoh, and it frustrates us from the economy of God's purpose....Our living and our existence depend on the provision from the heavenly source, not on the supply from the world.

As for those ... who can obtain by lawful means whatever they need, how can we consider them poor?

Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.

If one knew there would be enough then one wouldn't grab. That was another thing that was bad about the way we used to be. It was all grab grab grab while one could in case tomorrow one couldn't.)

God has promised to supply our needs. What we don't have now we don't need now.

Christ is sufficient. We do not need support groups for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.

He is not all we would ask for (if we were honest), but it is precisely when we do not have what we would ask for, and only then, that we can clearly perceive His all-sufficiency.