Quotes About Sufficiency

He used it to haul squids and he liked a fresh breeze to blow in his face. His name was Francis Almones and he had a sad life, for he always made just a fraction less than he needed to live.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

The fear of not having enough prevents many from seeing that they already are enough.

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

What is fear of need but need itself?

Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be?

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, hank you, that would suffice.

God is not in need of anything, but all things are in need of him.

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.

It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back.

I have said before, says the Soul, that I lack nothing, because my beloved has from all time sufficient, 2 out of his just nobility, and will have enough for evermore. What then should I lack? I do not love myself, or him, or his works, 3 except only for him. And what he has, which I do not have and shall not have, is more my own than what I do and shall have in my possession from him himself.

If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.

If someone is very hungry, the Angkar will take him where he will be stuffed with food.

We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.

Peace prevails when food suffices

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

Enough is as good as a feast.

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.