Quotes about Contentment

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.

Lord, keep us from speaking of love while hoarding the gifts you have given us. Make us full of discontent as long as there are brothers and sisters living and dying in hunger. Amen.

She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age.

Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

Whatever it was that others sought in life, their right to what they now felt was all the two of them wished to find.

I'd never once heard her dwell on the disappointments. Instead she seemed to find small pleasures everywhere.

As I chewed on the gooey popcorn, looking out at the lake, calm and turquoise now, I tried to recall a more contented moment

I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.