Quotes about Contentment
In 1900 the average person living in the United States wanted seventy-two different things and considered eighteen of them essential. Today the average person wants five hundred things and considers one hundred of them essential.
- Max Lucado
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Max Lucado
gratitude keeps us focused on the present. The Bible's most
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isn't it true? What you don't have is much less than what you do. from A Love Worth Giving
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You'll never know that Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.
- Max Lucado
His life was one of simplicity and deprivation.
- Max Lucado
Seek first God's kingdom and what God wants. Then all your other needs will be met as well. So don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will have its own worries. Each day has enough trouble of its own" (Matthew 6:33—34).
- Max Lucado
Embrace your poverty. We're all equally broke and blessed. "People come into this world with nothing, and when they die they leave with nothing" (Eccles. 5:15 NCV).
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Jesus was happy and wants us to be the same.
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He motions for you to lean forward. "I have a secret to tell you," he whispers, "the secret of satisfaction. 'The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want'" (Ps. 23: 1 NKJV). David has found the pasture where discontent goes to die. It's as if he is saying, "What I have in God is greater than what I don't have in life.
- Max Lucado
Don't worry about skills you don't have. Don't covet strengths others do have. Just extract your uniqueness.
- Max Lucado
And if you don't succeed at home, do you succeed at all?
- Max Lucado