Quotes About Sufficiency

God will provide for all of my needs.

tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith? Matthew 6:28-30 Using the illustration of one of His creations, the Lord makes the point that if a flower, which does nothing

God gives you all there is; your only question is how much to take of the unlimited supply.

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

They should consider themselves richer since they are now more robust in putting up with privations. It is better to need less than to have more.

The revenue arising from his school was small, and would have been scarcely sufficient to furnish him with daily bread, for he was a huge feeder, and, though lank, had the dilating powers of an anaconda; but to help out his maintenance, he was, according to country custom in those parts, boarded and lodged at the houses of the farmers whose children he instructed.

We had money, but there was nothing to buy. Instead, my husband would collect grass and leaves and we'd fry them in olive oil.

Most of us have adopted a strategy to get along called satisficing, a term coined by the Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon, one of the founders of the fields of organization theory and information processing. Simon wanted a word to describe not getting the very best option but one that was good enough. For things that don't matter critically, we make a choice that satisfies us and is deemed sufficient.

You—with all your weaknesses and flaws—were made for this. You—in all of your struggles and pain—are enough.

Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. Philippians 4:11–12, NLT

The enemy of "the best" is not "the worst." The enemy of "the best" is "just fine.

for now, almost was good enough

The capacity to be grateful is a blessing, for the possession of which we should be further grateful. We are taught to pray day by day for the food we need, not for a great store to be laid by for the distant future.

One of the consequences of covetousness is that it destroys the capacity to discern sufficiency. It distorts our thinking to the point where: Enough is never enough.

An elegant sufficiency, content,Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books.

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

Contentment is the only time you have enough.

Damos gracias a Dios por sus milagros, pero también por la suficiencia de su gracia que nos permite perseverar en medio de las tormentas (2Co 12:7–10).

I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.

To seek perfection is to be cursed to find fault in the perfectly adequate, enjoyable, or even just plain good.

We do not need more frightening punishments and more withering scoldings. We need the all-sufficiency of Jesus applied in rich measure to our deepest points of personal need.

Money is there to put food on the table and make sure your family is cared for. Anything beyond that can be argued as extraneous.

I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.