Quotes About Sufficiency

In addition to the absence of coordination and sufficiency, the programs of the past all have another common failing—they are indirect. Each seeks to solve poverty by first solving something else. I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective—the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.

For the first time in her life, Tilo felt that her body had enough room to accommodate all its organs.

Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God: God alone is sufficient.

Paul says in Philippians 4:19, 'And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.' Our needs won't be met according to the destitution of the world or to the poverty of our own faith in the moment but according to the riches in Jesus. There's no one richer than him!

We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.

They say half a loaf is better than none, Jimmy, but in a world of want, even a single slice is better than none.

Life is all I have, it is enough!

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so.

Rich is paying every single bill on time without thinking about it. Rich is being able to have a holiday or get through Christmas without having to borrow against January or February. Actually, rich would be just not thinking about money all the bloody time.

There is mercy enough in God to admit an innumerable multitude into heaven. There is mercy enough for all, and there is merit enough in Christ to purchase heavenly happiness for millions of millions, for all men that ever were, are or shall be. And there is a sufficiency in the fountain of heaven's happiness to supply and fill and satisfy all: and there is in all respects enough for the happiness of all.

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

If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little.

Nichts genügt dem, für den genug zu wenig ist.

The poor have little, beggars none, the rich too much, enough not one.

240. If thou wouldest be Happy, bring thy Mind to thy Condition, and have an Indifferency for more than what is sufficient.

I drive one car. I own one house. That's enough for me.

I always wanted to do good work, but not in order to buy big houses and big cars. I just wanted to be 'alright', to have enough money to be able to live on, to go to the cinema when I wanted to, and buy the books I wanted to read.

Unfortunately, no matter how much time you get, you can always use more.

The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.

Se había puesto de nuevo melancólica. Y por primera vez pensé que quizá las dalias no eran suficiente ocupación para un hombre jubilado.

I grew up in communist Russia where we didn't have anything, so I'm not worried that I can't buy an extra pair of shoes.