Quotes about Contentment

Our obsession with material things brings trouble and heartache into our lives. So we tell ourselves that we'll do better—we commit ourselves for a time to new budgets, we go on temporary diets, we hold garage sales. But none of it lasts for long because deep inside us, we treasure the creation more than we treasure the Creator.

Sturdy contentment that can weather the storms of difficulty and want is always rooted in worship.

You're not generally angry because things are in the way of God and his kingdom purposes. You're angry because something or someone has gotten in the way of something you crave, something you think will inspire contentment, satisfaction, or happiness in you. Your heart is desperate to be inspired, and you get mad when your pursuits are blocked. Where you look for awe will fundamentally control the thoughts and emotions of your heart in ways you normally don't even realize.

The DNA of joy is gratitude.

I am designed to appreciate beautiful things, but I must not attach my identity to how many of those things I possess, and I must not let my heart be ruled by

It's important to realize that you can search for life in only two places. Either you have found life to the fullest vertically or you are shopping for it horizontally.

Discontent is good if it makes you long for home, but bad if it makes you doubt the One who prepares a place for you in his home.

Here is one of the most beautiful fruits of grace—a heart that is content, more given to worship than demand and more given to the joy of gratitude than the anxiety of want.

because we are self-focused, we tend to be scorekeepers, constantly comparing our piles of stuff to the piles of others. It's a life of discontentment and envy. Envy is always selfish.

gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G. K. CHESTERTON

We are comfortable when we should be concerned. We are passive when we should be active. We are satisfied when we should be dissatisfied.

It was humbling to admit that I wasn't living the simple life because I was spiritually committed to it. I was living the simple life because I was poor.