“The root of corruption is lack of contentment.”

“Whoever is content, shall be cheerful.”

“To live without your want is the grace of contentment.”

“The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.”

“Don’t envy results, seek to know the process. Don’t want a man’s glory till you hear his story. Sometimes what you see is not even the destination, it’s just the current location but the result of a long journey. God sometimes would bring you to a point where it is much more than the gift…He captures your heart. My friend, not everything in the kingdom is a gift, somethings are rewards.”

“When what you have looks like nothing remember God gives you your future first!”

“Sometimes a story is all you have,” she [Coralee] says. “Sometimes that can be enough.”

“Ultimate prosperity is one’s value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.”

“If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.”

“Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] – even in the midst of trial.”

“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.”

“A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now.”

“You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.”

“Hope combined with action is the only thing that will bring you contentment.”