Quotes about Contentment

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

the fountain of content must spring up in the mind: and that he who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove .

15And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.

To live a good life is not to live free of troubles, but to live free of needless worry.

The more he cast away the more he had.

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

Thus it is that we may patiently pass through this life with its misery, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other troubles - content with this one thing: that our King [Jesus] will never leave us destitute, but will provide for our needs until, our warfare ended, we are called to triumph.

We see how mankind, without well thinking what they are doing, pursue, with impetuous and   ardent affections, the transitory things of this world; but, in thus catching at the empty shadow of a happy life, they lose true happiness itself.

That the covetous wants that which he has, as   well as that which he has not; because he is master of nothing, and is   the slave of his own wealth.

But if Abram bore his continual wanderings patiently, our   fastidiousness is utterly inexcusable, when we murmur against God, if   he does not grant us a quiet nest.

For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.

We should always look to the Lord, that by His care we might be led to whatever lot in life He provides for us.