Spiritual Contentment Quotes

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Contentment is better than divinations or visions.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.

There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.

God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

Be content not with your lot in life but with being here in the flow of life. The glories of creation are in your very cells; you are made of the same mindstuff as the angels, the stars, and god himself.

My philosophy is if you're happy being a born - again Christian, if you're happy be­ing a Roman Catholic, if you're happy being a Jew or Moslem ... great!! I'm happy being Ozzy.

God's favour is happiness.

Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.

I don't think it's that hard [to lead a Christian life]. To me it's fun. We have joy and happiness.

I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.

Happiness comes from living the way the Lord wants you to live.

Only a relationship with Christ can satisfy our hearts. Without Him we have nothing. With Him we have all things to enjoy.

Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.

This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.

Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

As believers, our joy and peace are not based in doing and achieving, but in believing. Joy and peace come as a result of building our relationship with the Lord.

And I really suspect that of all the things we think we want to know, the only thing we really want to know is that we are loved. And if Jesus means anything, he means that you are loved. I hope you know that. And I hope you stop worrying about all the stuff you don't know, because I don't think it amounts to a hill of beans.