Quotes about Contentment

Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lord, let me live until I die.

When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

From Morning to Night keep Jesus in thy Heart, long for Nothing, desire Nothing, hope for Nothing, but to have all this within Thee changed into the Spirit and Temper of the Holy Jesus. Let this be thy Christianity, thy Church, and thy Religion.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God's will, whatever comes.