Quotes about Contentment
Whoever possesses God is happy.
- St. Augustine
We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.
- David Platt
Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.
- Desmond Tutu
How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
- GK Chesterton
It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.
- John Keats
Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.
- John Piper
Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.
- John Piper
Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.
- Joyce Meyer
Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.
- Julian of Norwich
It is easy to become disillusioned with the circumstances of our lives compared to others'. But in the presence of God, He gives us a deeper peace and joy that transcends it all.
- Francis Chan
Many people never reach greater because they don't leave good enough behind.
- Steven Furtick