Quotes About Sufficiency

If you feel you don't have enough, you hold on to things. But if you feel you have enough, you let go of things.

My grace is always more than enough for you,j and my power finds its full expression through your weakness.

Throughout this time I sensed that God was playing a game with me. Perhaps He was using these experiences to teach me the difference between a Want and Need. Toothpaste tasted good, new razor blades shaved quicker – but these were luxuries, not necessities. I was certain that should a real Need ever arise, God would supply it.

A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation. —Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations1

All that we require for growing in godliness, our God provides.

Ain't one limb enough?

Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Whatever you need will be provided. Eternity takes care of everything perfectly. So never want for that which you do not have; you have exactly what you need.

He did what he could, and that was more than enough.

Enough," said he, "is always a little more than a man has.

God can be trusted to give us what we need when we need it. He does not guarantee to meet our wants. He meets our needs! He does not promise a stocked fridge—just today's food. Daily we learn to trust and we discover contentment. Sadly, if, like the Israelites, we don't listen, our manna may turn to maggots (16:20).

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

Our societies have achieved a general level of prosperity of which most of all the human beings who have ever lived could only dream. Now we need to show that we can stop continually wanting more - more money, more stuff. We must show that it is possible for people to realise that they have enough.

God can answer every need.

Beautiful Oneyou'll graspone dayjust how sufficientand goodyou are as you are. Title: SUFFICIENT, Tara Estacaan

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

None of us have ever asked the men for anything, Agata states. Not a single thing, not even for the salt to be passed, not even for a penny or a moment alone or to take the washing in or to open a curtain or to go easy on the small yearlings or to put your hand on the small of my back as I try, again, for the twelfth or thirteenth time, to push a baby out of my body. Isn't it interesting, she says, that the one and only request the women would make of the men would be to leave?

Just pray, Tristan,' I said. 'Pray that God will bridge the gap between what each of us has and what each of us needs to just be.

Nothing is pending in the world…nothing is finished, yet nothing is unresolved…Everything is filled to the brim.

As long as you remain present, everything you need is