Quotes About Sufficiency

The second toxic myth is that more is better. More of anything is better than what we have. It's the logical response if you fear there's not enough, but more is better drives a competitive culture of accumulation, acquisition, and greed that only heightens fears and quickens the pace of the race.

In the pursuit of more we overlook the fullness and completeness that are already within us waiting to be discovered.

The kinds of connections that truly protect and preserve us are those that emerge from the context of sufficiency and the sharing, diversity, reciprocity, and partnership found there.

Collaboration leads us to and grounds us in sufficiency.

We find sufficiency and sustainable prosperity when we think of our resources as a flow that is meant to be shared, when we put our full attention on making a difference with what we have, and when we partner with others in ways that expand and deepen that experience.

Walk confidently in the fact that our all-sufficient God did not make you insufficient or broken.

We don't need to live with a scarcity mentality because God always provides abundantly.

A good approach to something requires enough resources to handle the demands of that activity.

Set yourself free. Realize you already have everything you need and don't need anything else.

We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a figure for devotions. He is the missing essence of your existence. Whether we know it or not, we are desperate for Jesus.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference...instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.

When we are in a situation where Jesus is all we have, we soon discover He is all we really need.

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

My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.

When God is all you have, then all you have is all you need.

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

Again, "Pray without ceasing" (1 Thess. 5:17), and here the word to pray does not mean to beg or to plead as if God were unwilling to give--but simply to expose by faith every situation as it arises, to the all-sufficiency of the One who indwells you by His life.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

enough land to support their family, an amount that they called a hide.

I made him just and right, sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

Holy Spirit of God hath prepared and disposed of the Scripture so as it might be a most sufficient and absolutely perfect way and means of communicating unto our minds that saving knowledge of God and his will which is needful that we may live unto him, and come unto the enjoyment of him in his glory.

There is no such thing as just enough money. Only two measures: No Money and Not Enough Money.