Quotes about Contentment
Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.
— James MacDonald
God bless you and utterly satisfy your heart...with Himself.
— Amy Carmichael
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
— St. Augustine
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
— Teresa of Avila
I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
— Brennan Manning
Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.
— Samuel Rutherford
Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.
— Andy Stanley
God asks little, but He gives much.
— St. John Chrysostom
Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'
— CS Lewis
There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.
— AW Tozer
I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.
— Jeremiah Burroughs