Quotes about Contentment
I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
— David Brainerd
There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.
— David Livingstone
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.
— John Piper
Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God's will, whatever comes.
— Amy Carmichael
It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.
— Adoniram Judson
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
— St. Augustine
A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.
— Ellen White
The soul's deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him.
— FF Bruce
When I count other people's blessings I lose sight of mine.
— Andy Stanley
The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
— JC Ryle
When you are hunger for God, He will fill you.
— Jentezen Franklin