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I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. -
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The search for the good life, which so often is defined in terms of “things” and the means to get as many “things” as possible, has turned into a dead end as more and more people have more and more. -
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Be less concerned with what you have than with what you are. -
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Contentment makes much of little; greed makes little of much. Contentment is the poor man’s riches and desire the rich man’s poverty. -
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. -
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? -
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Christian contentment… is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal and the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with a provision... -
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You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. -
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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a glass slipper on a gouty foot. -
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It is no stretch to say that the Lord may orchestrate amazingly challenging circumstances for you and your family for the primary purpose of giving your supernatural hope and Christian contentment a p... -
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Christian contentment does not mean that we passively accept afflicting circumstances, making no effort to improve our situation. Neither does it mean laying down for injustice in this world. -
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God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you. -
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Learning to be satisfied with what we have rather than desiring more, more, more— this is the essence of joy. -
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A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult... -
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. -
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Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress. -
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There are two ways to get enough: One is to accumulate more and more, the other is to desire less. -
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True contentment is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. -
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Aren't you like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well-being you desire? Don't you often hope: "May this book, idea, cou... -
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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection. -
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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there’s no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out ... -
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Moments of more may leave us with lives of less. -
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John D. Rockefeller was once asked how much money it would take to be really satisfied. He answered, “Just a little bit more!” -
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
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