Christian Contentment Quotes

#1. Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#2. Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

Jeremiah Burroughs

#3. To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory, and excellence of a Christian.

Jeremiah Burroughs

#4. He wont have to worry about you spilling his secrets."
"Yeah," Jace said, "he's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always really wanted to be a ballerina."
-Inquisitor & Jace about Valentine, pg.123-

Cassandra Clare

#5. Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would've worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would've then better lead them on to happiness.

Geoffrey Wood

#6. Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck.

Timothy Keller

#7. One hundred percent of shots not taken don't go in.

Wayne Gretzky

#8. Compare your life only with the commandments of God.
Be like God. He is the mighty being that dwells in you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Contentment is the greatest joy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.

Ludwig Von Mises

#11. The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#12. You can be happy irrespective of what you have.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment.

Geoffrey Wood

#14. Joy of life is to be content.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#16. When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.

Charles R. Swindoll

#17. Who would have ever thought I'd find love, contentment and joy in a prison cell, but I did. I knew that I knew that I knew that day, I'd been released, and I thought to myself, "I need to tell everyone about this" because no one had ever told me.

Christian Hosoi

#18. Christian culture has too often offered women a push toward contentment that can numb us to our own desires, without offering the tools to discern whether those desires could be good or Holy-Spirit-inspired.

Katelyn Beaty

#19. I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

David E. Kelley

#20. We must not only aim to make a living but to live life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Contentment is the joy of life

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. Live by your own sacred standard.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Contentment is indispensable joy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

John Piper

#25. I'm in a win-win playoff. Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.

Billy Graham

#26. Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

Martin Walser

#27. Don't waste you energy to compare your life with others.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Consistency is the only certain path to eventual success.

Ben Tolosa

#29. But it just comes down to trying to get the work out there and however the team fits together then that's the way it sort of plays into itself.

Renee O'Connor

#30. My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.

Christian Scriver

#31. True peace cannot be found in a 'place'. Rather, it is found in a Person who can be with you in any 'place'.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#32. The Christian will desire to see the beauty of God in his house, that his soul might be ravished in the excellency of the object, and that the highest powers of his soul, his understanding, will, and affections might be fully satisfied, that he might have full contentment.

Richard Sibbes

#33. When I went into their family, it was the abode of happiness and contentment. The mistress of the house was a model of affection and tenderness. Her fervent piety and watchful uprightness made it impossible to see her without thinking and feeling - that woman is a Christian.

Frederick Douglass

#34. You don't need much to give. Give what you have.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#36. Someone who was just nice didn't remain on your mind an hour after they'd left.

S.A. Tawks

#37. Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.

Simon Mainwaring