Quotes about Contentment
You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need.
- Timothy Keller
Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you delight more in God's gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.
- Charles Spurgeon
Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.
- Teresa of Avila
Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.
- John Piper
This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.
- John Piper
If God is enough for you, then you'll always have enough, because you'll always have God.
- Max Lucado
We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.
- Mother Teresa
He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.
- St. Augustine
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
- John Piper
If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty.
- AW Tozer
Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you have to believe God can take care of you so you don't have to worry about that.
- Alveda King