Quotes about Contentment

We never regret having eaten too little.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

You were not contented while you had her, and to weep for her now is childish.

Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart.

Neither deficiencies nor disappointments, losses nor crosses, can cause disquieting discontents in that bosom where faith is commander in chief.

If you set your love on worldly things, they will not satisfy.

A contented Christian does not seek to choose his cross but leaves God to choose for him. He is content with both for the kind and the duration. A contented spirit says, 'let God apply what medicine he pleases and let it remain as long as it will, I know that when it has done it's cure and eaten the venom of sin out of my heart, God will take it off again.

In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal and is willing to live in that sphere and climate where God has set him.

To have a thankful heart for deliverance is a greater blessing than the deliverance itself.