Inspirational Quotes on Contentment

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”

“What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

“No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.”

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”

“Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.”

“Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.”

“I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.”

“There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve him, boldness to share him, and contentment in him.”

“The man who gets ahead is the man who works while others sleep. The people who do great works for God are those who are content and stay at their job.”

“A cheerful spirit is one of the most valuable gifts ever bestowed upon humanity by a kind Creator. It is the sweetest and most fragrant flower of the Spirit, that constantly sends out its beauty and fragrance, and blesses everything within its reach. It will sustain the soul in the darkest and most dreary places of this world. It will hold in check the demons of despair, and stifle the power of discouragement and hopelessness. It is the brightest star that ever cast its radiance over the darkened soul, and one that seldom sets in the gloom of morbid fancies and forboding imaginations.”

“Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!”

“The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.”

“A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.”

“If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a glass slipper on a gouty foot.”

“Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.”

“What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ?”

“Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.”

“Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.”

“The antidote for covetousness is contentment. The two are in opposition. Whereas the covetous, greedy person worships himself, the contented person worships God. Contentment comes from trusting God.”