Quotes About Sufficiency

God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others. —2 Corinthians 9:8

True affluence is not needing anything.

At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.

Worse, human rights lost their original connection with a larger egalitarian aspiration, focusing on sufficient provision instead.

For the moment, at least, human rights history is worth telling because it reveals how partial our activism has become, choosing sufficiency alone as intractable crises in politics and economics continue to mount.

Wants are my best riches, for I have these supplied by Christ.

Happy are they who are found wanting.

We love to carry heaven to heaven with us, and would have two summers in one year, and no less than two heavens; but this will not be for us: one, and such an one, may suffice us well enough. The Man Christ got but one only, and shall we have two?

Nada te turbe, nada te espante. Tudo passa; Deus não muda. A paciência tudo alcança. Quem a Deus tem, nada lhe falta. Só Deus basta.

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

There should he more than enough money and food here for you.

only what you have not given can be lacking in any situation.

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them is sufficient.

There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

I can imagine him beyond the world, looking back at me with an amazement of realization—This is why we have lived this life! There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

John Calvin says that when a seed falls into the ground it is cherished there, by which he means that everything the seed contains by way of expectation is foreseen and honored. One might as well say the earth invades the seed, seizes it as occasion to compose itself in some brief shape... So a thriving place is full of intention, a sufficiency awaiting expectation, teasing beyond hope itself.

Leer es protestar contra las insuficiencias de la vida. Quien busca en la ficción lo que no tiene, dice, sin necesidad de decirlo, ni siquiera saberlo, que la vida tal como es, no nos basta para colmar nuestra sed de absoluto fundamento de la condición humana, y que debería ser mejor. Inventamos las ficciones, para poder vivir de alguna manera, las muchas vidas que quisiéramos tener, cuando a penas disponemos de una sola.

If everything's given, you won't hunger

So more friends than suffice for one's own life are superfluous, and a hindrance to noble loving; there is therefore no need of them. In the case of friends for pleasure, too, a few are enough, as a little seasoning in food is enough. (page 177)

To live is enough.

Enough Is as Good as a feast.

It's little I ask, and get still less, but quite enough for me.