Quotes about Contentment
The best things in life are gifts from the One who steadfastly loves us. But an important question to ask ourselves is this: are we in love with God or just His stuff?
— Francis Chan
My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things - which are just benefits of doing something I loved.
— Tony Robbins
With love one can live even without happiness.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.
— Edith Wharton
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
— Vernon Howard
Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.
— John Lennon
If you're not at peace with yourself, you can't be at peace with anyone else.
— Joyce Meyer
Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?
— Francis Chan
We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.
— JC Ryle
Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
— Joseph Addison
One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view.
— Joseph Addison