Inspirational Quotes on Contentment

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.”

“Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.”

“Consider Jesus. Know Jesus. Learn what kind of Person it is you say you trust and love and worship. Soak in the shadow of Jesus. Saturate your soul with the ways of Jesus. Watch Him. Listen to Him. Stand in awe of Him. Let Him overwhelm you with the way He is.”

“Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts: the sight of the deep-blue sky, and the clustering stars above seem to impart a quiet to the mind.”

“I would fain know all that I need, and all that I may. I leave God's secrets to himself. It is happy for me that God makes me of his court, and not of his council.”

“If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.”

“What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.”

“To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.”

“Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.”

“The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.”

“How can they be delivered from the life of self, who are not willing to abandon all their possessions? How can they believe themselves despoiled of all, who possess the greatest treasure under heaven? Do not oblige me to name it, but judge, if you are enlightened; there is one of them which is less than the other, which is lost before it, but which those who must lose everything have the greatest trouble in parting with.”

“I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.”

“Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.”

“Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.”

“The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies and put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.”

“The more we accommodate ourselves to plain things, and the less we indulge in those artificial delights which gratify pride and luxury, the nearer we approach to a state of innocency.”

“Cast not away your confidence because God defers his performances. That which does not come in your time, will be hastened in his time, which is always the more convenient season. God will work when he pleases, how he pleases, and by what means he pleases. He is not bound to keep our time, but he will perform his word, honour our faith, and reward them that diligently seek him.”

“Here's what you need to keep in mind. You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. You have only today. This is the day the Lord has made. Live in it.”

“You may be transferred, enlisted, commissioned, reassigned, or hospitalized - but brand this on your heart - you can never go where God is not.”

“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.”