Quotes on Contentment
The rare and learned art of being content — godliness with contentment is great gain.
I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
9 quotations from 4 writers, each traced to the exact paragraph it comes from.
Augustine of Hippo 2
Luxury affects to be called plenty and abundance; but Thou art the fulness and never-failing plenteousness of incorruptible pleasures.
Let not these occupy my soul; let God rather occupy it, who made these things, very good indeed, yet is He my good, not they.
George Müller 2
The Lord helping us, we would rather suffer privation than contract debts.
The desires of my heart were, to retain the beloved daughter, if it were the will of God; the means to return her were, to be satisfied with the will of the Lord.
Hudson Taylor 1
The habit of coming in faith to Him is incompatible with unmet hunger and thirst.
Thomas à Kempis 4
Man’s happiness does not consist in the possession of abundant goods; a very little is enough.
The man who is at perfect ease is never suspicious, but the disturbed and discontented spirit is upset by many a suspicion.
Affection for creatures is deceitful and inconstant, but the love of Jesus is true and enduring.
Whatever is not God is nothing and must be accounted as nothing.