God Contentment Quotes

#1. There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Abu Bakr

#2. When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.

Kay Arthur

#3. There is a God! the sky his presence shares,
His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth,
Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares
And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.

Charlotte Saunders Cushman

#4. Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

Chanakya

#5. Meekness is marked by silence in the face of abuse and infamy, by submission to God's way, which is higher than our way as heaven is higher than the earth, by submissiveness to others for their welfare. It is the source of inexpressible joy and contentment.

V. Raymond Edman

#6. If we want to be women of contentment, we must choose to accept our portion, our assigned roles from God. We must make the choice to dwell on the positive aspects of our role in life. If we don't we'll be discontent, always wanting something different from what we've been given.

Linda Dillow

#7. The apostle Paul wrote that he'd learned to be content in whatever circumstances he was in. I used to think I was content, but now I could see that my contentment was based upon how well I controlled the circumstances of my life, not upon my trust in a loving God.

Robin Lee Hatcher

#8. Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who can measure? But the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. Everything we encounter in life is an opportunity to choose God and in turn become more like Him in the process. Quick contentment fixes are corner cutters; when we cut the corner and cut the process, we miss what God wants to do.

Joshua Stannard

#10. He said, The main thing that you bring the church is the person that you become, and that's what everybody will see; that's what will get reproduced; that's what people will believe. Arrange your life so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

Dallas Willard

#11. My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.

Jeremiah Burroughs

#12. The "with God" life is not a life of more religious activities or devotions or trying to be good. It is a life of inner peace and contentment for your soul with the maker and manager of the universe. The "without God" life is the opposite. It is death. It will kill your soul.

John Ortberg

#13. If God gave you contentment then you would never pursue your life purpose. It is your restlessness that pushes you to take action, change your life and seek more of what you could possibly be.

Shannon L. Alder

#14. Who God possesseth
In nothing is wanting;
Alone God sufficeth.

Teresa Of Avila

#15. Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.

Lyle W. Dorsett

#18. The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

Jerry Bridges

#19. God says happiness is contentment with what you already have, with what He provides you, with what you can share.

Craig Groeschel

#20. One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, God, what can You do through what I have?

Steven Furtick

#21. Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him (Hebrews 11:6, emphasis added). Call that payoff contentment, satisfaction, peace, or excitement - it all adds up to one word: happiness

Randy Alcorn

#22. A thankful and a contented spirit is a continual feast. We ought to be contented, and we shall be contented, if we are in the habit of seeing God in everything, and living upon Him day by day. Oh, for a spirit of true thankfulness!

Ashton Oxenden

#23. There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

Augustine Of Hippo

#24. It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

Frederick William Robertson

#25. Think of a world where "Detachment", "Gratitude" and "Empathy" were subjects included in every grade school's curriculum. A new generation would emerge with an attitude of peace, contentment and an overall appreciation for everything and everyone

Gary Hopkins

#26. My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.

John Ortberg

#27. Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.

Charles L. Allen

#28. Thank you God, for joy and good health, sadness and sickness, and the happiness, prosperity, and contentment you have given me. I love you!

Haresh Buxani

#29. Contentment is an expression of faith in the goodness of God. It says, God, I believe you love me and know what's best for me.

Rick Warren

#30. God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar.

Anthony Liccione

#31. That very breath wherewith they utter their complaints is a blessing and a fundamental one too for if God would withdraw that they were incapable of whatsoever else either have or desire.

Richard Allestree

#32. It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.

Thomas Watson

#33. Regardless of whether we live in the East or the West, whether we are rich or poor, we must find contentment with what God has given.

Linda Dillow

#34. our lot is to fear God and find our contentment in his providence,

Douglas Bond

#35. Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.

Bill Gothard

#36. God says only one thing if you want to have attachment towards worldly life; go ahead and get attached to it; or else, get attached to Me. If you get attached to Me, you will get permanent happiness and if you get attached to the worldly life, you will not find contentment!

Dada Bhagwan

#37. If we are to find contentment in the midst of trial and uncertainty, we must accept our situation as being purposely allowed into our lives by a personal and loving God.

Linda Dillow

#38. Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.

Jerry Bridges

#39. Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence.

Teresa Margaret Of The Sacred Heart

#40. I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.

Megan Carson

#41. If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does it follow that God exists? Surely not. All that would follow would be the desireability of the belief.

Richard Posner

#42. Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone.
Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.

Anne Sexton

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

John Piper

#44. The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

Martin Luther

#45. Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.

Charles R. Swindoll

#46. It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.

Johann David Wyss

#47. It is left to each of us to balance contentment regarding what God has allotted to us in life with some divine discontent resulting from what we are in comparison to what we have the power to become.

Neal A. Maxwell

#48. Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#49. Our goal isn't contentment in and of itself. We're not after a mystical state of Zen. Our goal is to be content for the glory and honor of God.

Stephen Altrogge

#50. Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.

W. Phillip Keller

#51. Let is walk ... joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life ... These pains will have an end when our life ends, after which there will be only joy, only contentment, only eternal consolation.

Francis De Sales

#52. 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

#53. Internal and external purification, contentment, mortification, study, and worship of God are the Niyamas.

Swami Vivekananda

#54. 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

#55. The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

William Ames

#56. Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.

Linda Dillow

#57. Maybe that's the definition of true contentment: choosing to rest in who God is, regardless of the circumstances.

Stephanie Rische

#58. Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.

Nathalia Crane

#59. Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.

Robert Murray McCheyne

#60. Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.

Charles Frazier

#61. When we turn life's little pleasures into remedies for life's troubles, we are setting up idols in our hearts, which actually push God aside.

Lydia Brownback

#62. 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

#63. So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have, but blessed be God, I have a contented heart which others have not.

Jeremiah Burroughs

#64. 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

#65. The source of all glory is acceptance of whatsoever the Lord hath bestowed, and contentment with that which God hath ordained.

Baha'u'llah