Quotes About Sufficiency

There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.

God did not give me everything that i wanted. But, He gave me everything that i needed!

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

God has already provided all you need to live this one day His way!

You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.

Single Christians living in purity and community are billboards for the sufficiency of Jesus

Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough…

God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need.

The size of a challenge should never be gauged in terms of our capability. What we have to offer will never be enough. God never calls us to provide; that's His responsibility. Instead, He calls us to commit whatever we have—even if it's no more than a sack lunch. His call comes with a promise:

H]e developed a private philosophy of total self-reliance, an unyielding internal sufficiency that requires no external support from others.

I lived a life where I had less than I desired. So instead of wanting more, sometimes I just made myself want even less. Sometimes I made myself believe that I wanted nothing, not even food or air. And if I wanted nothing, I'd just turn into a ghost. And that would be the end of it.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

To be clear, concluding in brief: there is enough for all. So there should be no more people living in poverty. And there should be no more billionaires. Enough should be a human right, a floor below which no one can fall; also a ceiling above which no one can rise. Enough is as good as a feast—or better.

That was all. It was enough

I'm not perfect... But I'm enough.

You do not carry the cross. Instead you are all crucified on the timber of your sufficiency, which is given to you, the more you insist, the more you bleed: it suits you to say you carry the cross like a sacred duty, whereas you are heavy with the weight of your necessities. Have the courage not to admit those necessities and lift yourselves up for your own sakes.

Your needs are overwhelming? You can't depend on yourself or others to meet them? You don't even know what they are? Then need nothing.

Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.

God alone is sufficient.8

Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

Do for yourself or do without.

People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.