Quotes about Contentment

You may be serving in obscurity in some small place, feeling unknown and unappreciated. Listen, God put you were you are for a purpose! ... He will let you know if he wants you somewhere else.

Many people are driven by materialism. Their desire to acquire becomes the whole goal of their lives. This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.

Albert Schweitzer said, "The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.

He wants you to enjoy life, not just endure it.

it's easy to forget that the pursuit of happiness is not what life is about.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

God wants us to have faith that does not complain while waiting, but rejoices because we know our times are in His hands ... hands that labour for our highest good.

May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.'

We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means.

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.