Quotes about Contentment

Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.

Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.

Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

Surely joy is the condition of life.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Those who are the happiest are not neccessarily those for whom life has been easiest.

There's a lot that is good in your life-don't take it for granted. Don't get so focused on the struggles that you miss the gift of today

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

I've got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I'm okay.

Without joy in your life you are powerless.

Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see -- the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are.