Divine Contentment Quotes

True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.

And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.

Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

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.

If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?

The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more.

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.

Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

I am at peace with God and all mankind.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?