What They Said

“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more.  The other is to desire less.”

G.K. Chesterton

"Oh,let him be to each of us our beloved! If he be God's beloved, he may as well be thine. Is he able to satisfy God's vast thoughts;  and is he not able to satisfy thee, poor creature? God Himself is  satisfied and at rest in him: "I was daily his delight," says Christ, Prov. viii.; and wouldst thou be happier than God is?  Is he God's beloved Son, in whom he is well pleased; and wilt thou be pleases in anything else save Christ?"

Thomas Goodwin

“Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.”

Martin Luther

"The soul is wider than creation, broader than space; give it all, it would be still unsatisfied, and man would not find rest. You say, "That is strange: if I had a little more I should be very well satisfied." You make a mistake: if you are not content with what you have you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. "Nay," says one, "I should be." You do not know yourself. If you have fixed your affection on the things of this world, that affection is like a horse-leech; it cries, "Give! give!" It will suck, suck, suck to all eternity, and still cry, "Give, give!" and though you give it all, it has not gotten enough."

Charles Spurgeon