Quotes about Contentment

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied--wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions--for now, I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.

What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have.

There were answers to this and all my hard questions—for now I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.

Do you know when she started praising the Wallers so highly?" Mama went on. "The day she left them. As long as she was there, she had nothing but complaints. The Wallers couldn't compare with the van Hooks where she'd been before. But at the van Hooks she'd actually been miserable. Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings, Corrie. It's something we make inside ourselves.

Happiness is not dependent on happenings, but on relationships in the happenings.

There are some, like me, who are called to live a single life," I said softly. "For them it is always easy for they are, by their nature, content. Others, like Ellen, are called to prepare for marriage which may come in later life. They, too, are blessed, for God is using the in-between years to teach them that marriage is not the answer to unhappiness. Happiness is found only in a balanced relationship with the Lord Jesus.

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings…it's something we make inside ourselves.

Someone said it's not wrong to have things. It's wrong when your things have you.

Godliness with contentment is rare.

Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have

My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.