Quotes about Contentment
If I become content by having my desire satisfied, that is only self-love; but when I am contented with the hand of God and am willing to be at His disposal, that comes from my love to God.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
My brethren, the reason why you do not have contentment in the things of the world is not that you do not have enough of them. The reason is that they are not things proportional to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God Himself.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory, and excellence of a Christian.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have, but blessed be God, I have a contented heart which others have not.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
On one side self-indulgence presses me hard; on another covetousness strives to make an inroad; my belly wishes to be a God to me, in place of Christ
- Jerome
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.
- Mark Twain
Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.
- Michael Horton
The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.
- Mother Teresa
Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.
- Nicole Kidman
Mother Teresa once said, "Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile." ... The last thing many believers need is to go to another Bible study.
- Rick Warren