Quotes about Contentment
The DNA of joy is thankfulness. Have you noticed that entitled, complaining people don't happen to be very joyful?
— Paul David Tripp
Life is all about what we look to to fill us.
— Paul David Tripp
He who is grasped by the one thing that is needed has the many things under his feet. They concern him but not ultimately, and when he loses them he does not lose the one thing he needs and that cannot be taken from him.
— Paul Tillich
One cannot have contentment in the Christian life without the darkness. Dying is the only path to resurrection, and that is the only way of knowing God. There is no shortcut. Jesus himself is our model for this.
— Peter Enns
I've learned to be fine with not knowing.
— Peter Enns
that I will not accept even a thread, or a strap of a sandal, or anything that belongs to you, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
— Genesis 14:23
And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.
— Genesis 25:8
Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
— Genesis 30:13
“I already have plenty, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what belongs to you.”
— Genesis 33:9
Please accept my gift that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.” So Jacob pressed him until he accepted.
— Genesis 33:11
When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.
— Exodus 16:18
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
— Exodus 20:17