Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.
Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.
A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.
Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.
The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations.
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.
The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.
Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.
The happiness state, when examined more closely, turns out not to be a point but a range, with contentment at the bottom and exaltation at the top. . . there are probably as many forms of happiness as there are of depression.
Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.
The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.
Experiment with this a little. During these days that you are here with me, don't nourish any desire for happiness, and then see how your heart becomes filled with happiness. Don't have any desire for peace, and see how the turmoil within you vanishes. Don't beg for contentment and see how contentment showers down on you. Please try this - only then will you understand.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
She was moved by a kind of commiseration. . . a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.
Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Contentment: The smother of invention.
What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.
Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.
Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.
Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.