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Friday, December 08, 2023

Contentment Quotes

Quotes About Contentment 



  • Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. --BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
  • There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. --OSCAR WILDE
  • He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another. --AESOP
  • To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. Akhenaton (fl. 1375 B.C.)
  • Happiness: a way station between too little and too much. Channing Pollock
  • The stream of spontaneous acts of Godly kindness carries us to the sea of contentment and peace.  Constance Hurst-Howard
  • Until you make peace with who you are, You'll never be content with what you have. Doris Mortman
  • There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so. German Proverb
  • One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. Merle Shain
  • The heart is rich when it is content, and it is always content when its desires are fixed on God. Miguel Cordero-Munoz
  • It is right to be content with what we have, but never with what we are. Sir James Makintosh
  • Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. --Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman (1608-1661)
  • Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. --Thomas Fuller
  • Contentment is natural wealth. --Socrates
  • Contentment, then, is the product of a heart resting in God. It is the soul’s enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding. It is the outcome of my will being brought into subjection to the Divine will. It is the blessed assurance that God does all things well, and is, even now, making all things work together for my ultimate good. --Arthur W. Pink
  • There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have the energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him. --J. I. Packer
  • Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. --FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD











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Contentment
A state of mind in which one's desires are confined to his lot whatever it may be (1Ti_6:6; 2Co_9:8). It is opposed to envy (Jas_3:16), avarice (Heb_13:5), ambition (Pro_13:10), anxiety (Mat_6:25, Mat_6:34), and repining (1Co_10:10). It arises from the inward disposition, and is the offspring of humility, and of an intelligent consideration of the rectitude and benignity of divine providence (Psa_96:1, Psa_96:2; 145), the greatness of the divine promises (2Pe_1:4), and our own unworthiness (Gen_32:10); as well as from the view the gospel opens up to us of rest and peace hereafter (Rom_5:2).

Contentment
CONTENTMENT, n.
1. Content; a resting or satisfaction of mind without disquiet; acquiescence.
Contentment, without external honor, is humility.
Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim 6.
2. Gratification.
At Paris the prince spent a day, to give his mind some contentment.

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Proverbs 14:30 (MSG) A sound mind makes for a robust body, but runaway emotions corrode the bones.
Luke 12:15 (MSG) Speaking to the people, he went on, “Take care! Protect yourself against the least bit of greed. Life is not defined by what you have, even when you have a lot.”
Ecclesiastes 4:6 (MSG) One handful of peaceful repose Is better than two fistfuls of worried work— More spitting into the wind.
Ecclesiastes 6:7 (MSG) We work to feed our appetites; Meanwhile our souls go hungry.
Psalms 131:2 (MSG) I’ve kept my feet on the ground, I’ve cultivated a quiet heart. Like a baby content in its mother’s arms, my soul is a baby content.
John 14:8 (MSG) Philip said, “Master, show us the Father; then we’ll be content.”
3 John 10 - So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.
Hebrews 13:5 - Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
1 Timothy 6:8 - But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.
1 Timothy 6:6 Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth.
Philippians 4:11 - Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.
2 Corinthians 12:10 - For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Luke 3:14 - Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.”
Job 20:20 Because he knew no contentment in his belly, he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.
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