Quotes about Contentment
My portion. My cup. My lot is secure. My heart can be at peace. My Father is in charge. How simple!
— Elisabeth Elliot
A great many things determine how people live, and money is not at the top of the list. Choices are always available. What you choose will depend on how you see things: yourself, your work, your right to express taste and desire and personality, your understanding of the love of God as expressed in His creation and order and harmony.
— Elisabeth Elliot
No matter what you're facing, embrace life in trust and contentment based on your faith in Jesus.
— Elizabeth George
God has already provided all you need to live this one day His way!
— Elizabeth George
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.
— Alistair Begg
Prayer loosens the grip of envy on our hearts.
— Alistair Begg
Learning to be content with what we have is a safeguard against the temptation to break the previous nine commands.
— Alistair Begg
Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.
— Alphonsus Liguori
I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.
— Marianne Williamson
The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you'll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don't use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.
— Wayne Dyer
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca