Quotes about Contentment
Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.
— Marianne Williamson
The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away
— Martin Luther
Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.
— Mother Teresa
Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
— Philip James Bailey
If God gave us everything we asked for, we'd be in chaos.
— Robin Jones Gunn
Whoever possesses God is happy.
— St. Augustine
We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.
— David Platt
Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.
— Desmond Tutu
How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
— GK Chesterton
It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.
— John Keats
Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.
— John Piper