Quotes about Contentment

Live from the abundant place that you are loved, and you won't find yourself begging others for scraps of love.

It's easy to live loved when I feel loved.

We are amazingly similar to the children of Israel. We spend half our lives looking back at our own Egypt with selective memories, longing to have our comfort zone back. Then we spend the other half wishing our days away for a dreamy future in our own promised land.

We all desperately want something that we see the Lord giving to other women. We see Him blessing them in the very areas He's withholding from us. And while these other women may not be obnoxious like Peninnah in their reminders of their blessing and our lack, it's increasingly painful each time we see a reminder. We look at them, and we feel set aside.

Being full of God's love settles, empowers, and brings out the best of who we are. On the other hand, the more full of the flesh we are, the more we grab at anyone and anything to fill that ache for love and acceptance.

comparison steals celebration. And a life void of celebration is a life empty.

If you wait for what your heart desires, you treasure it more when you finally do get it.

Food can fill our stomachs but never our souls. Possessions can fill our houses but never our hearts. Sex can fill our nights but never our hunger for love. Children can fill our days but never our identities. Jesus wants us to know only He can fill us and truly satisfy us. He really wants us to know that.

My body size is not tied to my happy. If my happy was missing when I was larger, it will still be missing when I get smaller.

the only way to diminish our regrets is by making decisions that lead to peace.

The short time we actually focus on today's journey is often wasted on complaining, grumbling, wishing to be in a different place, or simply and mindlessly going through the motions of life.

If this is the worst thing that happens to me today, it's still a pretty good day.