Peace & Calm
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Whensoever a man desireth aught above measure, immediately he becometh restless.
This continual death is a blessed life known to few. A single word, uttered from this rest, will do more, even in outward affairs, than all our most eager and officious care.
The comfort of life doth not stand in having much; it is in being contented.
He who is not content with what he has, will never be without craving desires; and he who is the prey of an unsatisfied desire, can never be content.
To live contented upon God in the deficiency of outward comforts, is an art which flesh and blood hath not learned; nay, many of God’s own children, who excel in some duties of religion, when they come to this of contentment, how do they bungle?
A true Christian is a wonder; he is the most contented, and yet the least satisfied.
God alone can give rest to my spirit.
Be content to do quietly and gently what it becomes you to do, and let everything else be to you as though it were not.
Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Seek feeling and you will miss it; be content to live without it, and you will have all you require. If you are always noticing your heart-beats, you will bring on heart-disease. If you are ever muffling against cold, you will become very subject to chills. If you are perpetually thinking about your health, you will induce disease.
Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.
Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
The greatest happiness of any one is to possess his soul.
Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
...I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Contentment is a flower that doth not grow in every garden; it teacheth a man how in the midst of want to abound.
A gracious spirit is a contented spirit.
A contented spirit is a silent spirit; he hath not one word to say against God.
Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
He that is down, needs fear no fall; He that is low, no pride.
Thieves may plunder us of our money and plate, but not of this pearl of contentment, unless we are willing to part with it.
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