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Quotes About Sufficiency

They for whom God is not enough are greedy. The reward for all your works should be that they are known to God and that you seek God in them. Let this always be enough for you.
~ Meister Eckhart
The word "enough" has no relevance for us.
~ Michael L. Brown
The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.
~ Michael Palin
You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have.
~ Unknown
Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.
~ Millard Fuller
If she'd had the cash in her pocket, she would've just given it to him. Money had always been a kind of burden to her. If she had it, she spent it, and when she didn't have it, she worried about how she would live. She wished she had enough so she wouldn't feel so anxious all the time. Would there ever be enough?
~ Min Jin Lee
Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing upset you. Everything changes. God alone is unchanging. With patience all things are possible. Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone is enough.
~ Unknown
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
~ Unknown
You don't qualify to be called poor if you are able to feed yourself and you are satisfied with your daily life.
~ Unknown
God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do, He equips us to do.
~ Myles Munroe
I've heard it said this way: "You'll never know that Christ is all you need, until He's all you have. And when He's all you have, you'll find out that He truly is all you need." So let's keep singing those songs, reminding ourselves and others that His grace really is enough and that all our hope truly is found in Christ alone.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
~ Unknown
People make what they need for themselves," says Roxy. "My dad says that. If there's something you need, something you really have to have—not just want to but have to, you'll find a way to get it.
~ Naomi Alderman
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Second Inaugural Address, January 20, 1937
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly
~ Nicholas Fox Weber
Yesterday we believed that it was sufficient to scorn what man achieves; today we know that we must also scorn what he desires.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
The great Creator has divided His power with no other being; far less with inanimate objects, as you have been taught to believe, for He alone is omnipotent and all-sufficient.
~ Unknown
Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away expect God God alone is sufficient
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.
~ Oswald Chambers
You cannot serve the Lord"—but you can place yourself in the proper position where God's almighty power will flow through you. Is your relationship with God sufficient for you to expect Him to exhibit His wonderful life in you?
~ Oswald Chambers
There is more than enough of anything for anybody in the hole entire universe
~ Unknown