Quotes about Contentment

Everyone has wondered if his or her life will ultimately be a happy one.

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

I'm not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody's throat: 'You're going to do it my way.' I'd rather show by example and live my life and have people say, 'You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He's got peace and joy, and he seems content.'

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

Truly blessed are those whose hearts know the peace of God; otherwise, the poor and the rich, the beggar and the king are all alike.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

Since happiness is nothing else than the enjoyment of the Supreme Good, and the Supreme Good is above us, no one can enjoy happiness unless he rises above himself.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, And try to be that perfectly.

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures.

Nothing to be done. I'm beginning to come round to that opinion.