What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength. (Phil. 4:11—13 NIV)

Content. That's the word. A state of heart in which you would be at peace if God gave you nothing more than he already has.

In 1900 the average person living in the United States wanted seventy-two different things and considered eighteen of them essential. Today the average person wants five hundred things and considers one hundred of them essential.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

isn't it true? What you don't have is much less than what you do. from A Love Worth Giving

He motions for you to lean forward. "I have a secret to tell you," he whispers, "the secret of satisfaction. 'The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want'" (Ps. 23: 1 NKJV). David has found the pasture where discontent goes to die. It's as if he is saying, "What I have in God is greater than what I don't have in life.

I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. Philippians 4:11

John Calvin wrote, "The evil in our desire typically does not lie in what we want, but in that we want it too much.

I had nothing and lived in the most insignificant place.

That "henceforth the heat of having shall never scorch him more.

I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.