Quotes about Sufficiency
even though there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the maidservant and young man with me. There is nothing that we, your servants, lack.”
— Judges 19:19
He is poor, who has need of another, and has not from himself all things that are useful for life.
— Marcus Aurelius
Dear Jesus, I thank You that we must come with empty hands. I thank You that You have done all—all—on the cross, and that all we need in life or death is to be sure of this.
— Corrie Ten Boom
If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
— Epicurus
When we live out of a sense of who we are in Christ, we live our lives based on all we have been given by Christ. This keeps us from seeking to get those things from the people and situations around us.
— Timothy Lane
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. PHILIPPIANS 4 : 12
— Sarah Young
When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another.” But he replied, “There are no more jars.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
— 2 Kings 4:6
If God is enough for you, then you'll always have enough, because you'll always have God.
— Max Lucado
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
— St. Jerome
The word of God is more than enough for the people of God to live their lives to the glory of God
— Kevin DeYoung
I felt, even at fifteen, that God meant man to be happy, that He meant to provide him with what he needed to maintain life in order to be happy, and that we did not need to have quite so much destruction and misery as I saw all around and read of in the daily press.
— Dorothy Day