Quotes related to Philippians 4:11
I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.
- Teresa of Avila
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.
- Teresa of Avila
Our country is wherever we are well off.
- Cicero
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
- St. John Chrysostom
Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.
- David O. McKay
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
- Joseph Addison
Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.
- Norman Vincent Peale
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
- Aesop
Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.
- AW Pink
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
- Henry Ward Beecher