Quotes related to 1 Timothy 6:6
A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
- Elisabeth Elliot
We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent
- JI Packer
He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
- Alphonsus Liguori
But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.
- David Platt
Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.
- James MacDonald
Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.
- Samuel Rutherford
Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'
- CS Lewis
I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.
- Epictetus
Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.
- St. Augustine
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
- William Law