Quotes about Contentment

If you're unhappy with what you've had over the last 50 years, you have an unfortunate misappraisal of life. It's as good as it gets, and it's very likely to get worse.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.

To greed, all nature is insufficient.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.