Quotes About Sufficiency

Your abilities are unlimited. Nothing is impossible for you to accomplish, because you're sufficient in God's sufficiency (2 Corinthians 3:5).

A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue.

Perfect is close enough.

So yes, in some ways, these would be enough for soap. But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough ?

Así que, sí, hasta cierto punto aquellas dos cosas bastarían para fabricar jabón. Pero ¿no sería espantoso? ¿No sería terrible vivir rodeada de la descarnada y cruda vacuidad de las cosas que, sencillamente, bastaban para algo?

How terrible to be surrounded by the stark sharp hollowness of things that simply were enough.

Tienes todo lo que necesitas para vivir como Dios quiere que vivas!

Christ has already placed in my storehouse everything that I need.

You will never be left to the limited range of your own resources.

Self-reliance is a lie that leads you nowhere good. You do not have what you need inside yourself to live as you were created to live. So a God of tender grace comes to you in the person of his Son and offers you everything you need for life and godliness. In grace, he is ever with you because he knows you'll never make it on your own.

Because we live for our happiness, happiness always eludes us—???because every fulfilled desire is followed by yet another desire.

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. —Bill Hoest

Even without the constant bombardment to reach for more wealth, 'just enough' can still sound like a weak counter-narrative to 'keep striving for more'. But even if it appears boring to accept that you (may) have enough wealth already, it can also be tremendously liberating. Once you have enough money to afford the basic things you want in life, you can stop constantly worrying.

The more people are convinced by the 'just enough' approach, the more likely they will be to limit their material consumption, and favour redistributing resources away from those with more than enough towards those with little.

5Let your life be free from love of money but be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never forsake you or abandon you." 6Thus we may say with confidence: "The Lord is my helper, [and] I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?

O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that which is All cannot be sufficient unto itself!

You do not have enough, therefore you are not enough" is a powerful belief sustaining the market. The faith communities must believe "You are enough, and therefore you have enough." And so must we all.

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

When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.

since what they already had was more than enough to perform all the work.

If all our flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”

a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.

Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.