Quotes About Sufficiency

Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.

Abundance is the ability to do what you need to do, when you need to do it.

Everything I need now is here

Not enough is a spiritual state, not an economic one.

We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.

Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort...seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH.

Ulf nodded. "Many of us have to settle for something," he said. "And then we find the thing we've settled for is as good as the thing we wanted to do in the first place.

Growth of what? For whom? At what cost? Paid by whom? What is the real need here, and what is the most direct and efficient way for those who have that need to satisfy it? How much is enough? What are the obligations to share?

Saint Teresa of Ávila's Meditation "Christ has no body now, but yours. No hands, no feet on earth, but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ looks compassion into the world. Yours are the feet with which Christ walks to do good. Yours are the hands with which Christ blesses the world.… Let nothing trouble you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing; God never changes. Patience obtains all things. He who possesses God lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

And, at the risk of generalizing unduly, we might suggest that here as well is the point of contact for the application of the message of Colossians to a wide variety of historical and contemporary teachings. Any teaching that questions the sufficiency of Christ — not only for "initial" salvation but also for spiritual growth and ultimate salvation from judgment — falls under the massive christological critique of Colossians.

God is the source of my supply. His riches flow to me freely, copiously, and abundantly. All my financial and other needs are met at every moment of time and point of space; there is always a divine surplus.

I have enough to last for the rest of my life.

It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.

I used to trouble about what life was for. Now being alive seems sufficent reason.

What surprises me about living here is that, no matter how much is taken out, this linoleum palace continues to contain all the necessities for life, at the same time as it refuses to admit a single thing, either accidentally or arranged, of beauty or joy. In this, I think, it is much like East Germany itself.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. Mahatma Gandhi

And Nature is enough for us, gives us all the light we want and all that we, as yet, are fitted to receive.

Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green house... It's still consumption. What matters in this world is the fulfilment of people's needs and the fulfilment of their aspirations.

wasn't her love and attention enough

Sou definitivamente contra o definido, porque o definido é o bastante e o bastante não basta.

The astonishing reality of things, Is my discovery every day, Each thing is what it is, And it's hard to explain to someone how happy this makes me, And how much this suffices me.

Baste a quem baste o que lhe basta; O bastante de lhe bastar!; A vida é breve, a alma é vasta:; Ter é tardar.