Quotes about Contentment
And when Moses heard this explanation, he was satisfied.
— Leviticus 10:20
But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”
— Numbers 11:6
If all our flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”
— Numbers 11:22
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
— Deuteronomy 5:21
with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,
— Deuteronomy 6:11
Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
— Deuteronomy 8:12
And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.
— Deuteronomy 11:15
“O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!
— Joshua 7:7
even though there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the maidservant and young man with me. There is nothing that we, your servants, lack.”
— Judges 19:19
And he looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.
— 1 Kings 19:6
and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.
— 2 Kings 4:13
For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
— Job 3:13