Quotes about Sufficiency
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
- Edmund Burke
I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.
- Gordon Hinckley
Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.
- Teresa of Avila
When things aren't working, the natural inclination is to throw more at the problem. More people, time, and money. All that ends up doing is making the problem bigger. The right way to go is the opposite direction: Cut back.
- Jason Fried
Having money is a way of being free of money.
- Albert Camus
If God be not enough for you, you will never have enough. Turn to him more, and know him better, if you would have a satisfied mind. -Directions Against Sinful Desires and Discontent.
- Richard Baxter
But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.
- Anonymous
If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of His glory and Christ of His sufficiency.
- Matt Chandler
What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
- Elisabeth Elliot
God has promised to supply our needs. What we don't have now we don't need now.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Christ is sufficient. We do not need support groups for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.
- Elisabeth Elliot
He is not all we would ask for (if we were honest), but it is precisely when we do not have what we would ask for, and only then, that we can clearly perceive His all-sufficiency.
- Elisabeth Elliot