Nine Requisites for Contented Living:
Health enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of God.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor,
whilst the discontented man is never rich. Frank Herbert
Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth.
After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world,
and we can’t take anything with us when we leave it.
1 Timothy 6:6-7 New Living Translation (NLT)
I don’t have everything I want but I have everything I need.
That’s contentment. James MacDonald
I am not saying this because I am in any need,
for I have learned to be content in whatever situation I am in.
I know how to be humble, and I know how to prosper.
In each and every situation I have learned the secret of being full
and of going hungry, of having too much and of having too little.
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:11-13 International Standard Version (ISV)
The key to contentment is to consider.
Consider who you are and be satisfied with that.
Consider what you have and be satisfied with that.
Consider what God’s doing and be satisfied with that.
You will be amazed at how much more comfortable
you’ll feel with yourself.
Finally, consider this:
If contentment cannot be found within yourself, you’ll never find it.
Luci Swindoll