Quotes about Contentment

he rewards our efforts with peace and joy.

Greed for the things money can buy ("natural wealth") is a bad thing, but it is finite. You can only enjoy a finite amount of food or drink, houses or cars, or even sex. But greed for money ("artificial wealth") is infinite. You can always want more. It's like a drug: you have to have higher and higher doses of it to give you the same "buzz" you used to get from little bits of it. And this never stops. It is Hell's false infinite.

However, when once perfect happiness has been attained, nothing will remain to be desired because then there will be full enjoyment of God

desire will be at rest, not only our desire for God but all our desires; so that the joy of the blessed is full to perfection—indeed, over-full, since they will obtain more than they were capable of desiring

Yet one's joy will be greater than another's on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness

According to the Bible, the antidote to materialism is generosity.

Christian joy isn't always laughing, always having a good, hilarious time. Christian joy is the deep, settled peace that comes to live within your heart when you know that the really important things are all right.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for.

I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

Fade, fade, each earthly joy; Jesus is mine! Break every earthly tie; Jesus is mine; Dark is the wilderness; Earth has no resting-place; Jesus alone can bless; Jesus is mine.

The voice from the tree did not summon them to do, but to be satisfied with what was done.

For it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.