Quotes about Contentment
The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God
— Jerry Bridges
Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
— Epictetus
What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
— George H. W. Bush
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
— Lao Tzu
By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.
— Elisabeth Elliot
God has promised to supply our needs. What we don't have now we don't need now.
— Elisabeth Elliot
My heart was saying, Lord, take away this longing, or give me that for which I long. The Lord was answering, I must teach you to long for something better.
— Elisabeth Elliot
He is not all we would ask for (if we were honest), but it is precisely when we do not have what we would ask for, and only then, that we can clearly perceive His all-sufficiency.
— Elisabeth Elliot
There is a whole world of difference between those who look only for their own happiness in this world and those who know their true happiness lies in the will of God.
— Elisabeth Elliot
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at all fitting or proper is that we should set our hearts on them. Temporal things must be treated as temporal things - received, given thanks for, offered back, but enjoyed. They must not be treated like eternal things.
— Elisabeth Elliot
A willing acceptance of all that God assigns and a glad surrender of all that I am and have constitute the key to receiving the gift of a quiet heart. Whenever I have balked, the quietness goes. It is restored, and life immeasurably simplified, when I have trusted and obeyed.
— Elisabeth Elliot