Contentment does not equate to complacency or surrender, nor does it mean that you have to put on a pretense of joy in times of hardship.
When a friend wants to come over on a whim, contentment doesn't pee its pants because the house looks like a war zone.
Not exact matches
If you can see the legitimate purpose in your current role and take a semblance of
contentment from it, and if you figure your passion out later, you're not necessarily going to be miserable, and you don't have the frustration of feeling held back.
As it
does so, its screen - based face goes through a range of expressions, finally settling into one of
contentment when it hits its groove.
Striving for personal improvement is vital to success, but don't underestimate the value of
contentment.
I see it as a sort of a concession I'll have to make if I don't have the faith to find
contentment in my God alone.
Contentment says
do the best you can.
My journey
did not lead me to other churches or missions or seminary to find
contentment.
But
did you know that this iconic verse actually appears right after a verse about
contentment?
It is right to say that God is almighty and
does not need us or any creature, because all happiness and joy, all wisdom and goodness, all peace and
contentment are in the Blessed Trinity eternally.
For a long time, thinking he is the same as other men, he will try to see as they
do, to speak their language, to find
contentment in the joys with which they are satisfied.
While most Christians freely embrace the idea that the world doesn't satisfy, many believe the remedy is to find
contentment in a relationship with Christ.
However, though he grants this is possible, his analogies and other statements suggest he doesn't himself think Jesus was in possession of any transcendent self -
contentment.
They
do embody
contentment and repose.
They speak of church cultures that treated women's bodies as inherently problematic and seductive, that assigned a woman's worth to her sexual purity or procreative prowess, that questioned women's ability to think rationally or make decisions without the leadership of men, that blamed victims of sexual abuse for inviting the abuse or tempting the abuser, that shamed women who
did not «joyfully submit» to their husband and find
contentment in their roles as helpers and homemakers, and that effectively silenced victims of abuse by telling women and children that reporting the crime would reflect poorly on the church and thus damage the reputation of Christ.
Find the joy,
contentment and wonder of those who
do not know.
It's only found in surrender, in living in the moment, in
contentment with being and knowing the truth of enough — that He is enough and Love is enough and what I can
do / offer / be is enough, too.
And by disbelief I
do not mean some sort of brave rejection of the doctrine, some defiant demand flung at heaven for possession of one's own soul; I mean merely the impotence of an imagination that finds the very notion of sin incomprehensible, the conscience of a man who is sure that, whatever sin might be, it surely lies lightly upon a soul as decent as his own, and can be brushed off with a single casual stroke of a primly gloved hand; I mean an habitual insensibility to the illuminations and chastisements of beauty, a condition of being wholly at home in a world from which mystery and sin and glory have all been banished, and in which spiritual wretchedness has become material
contentment.
While I
do not
do it to receive, I would be disingenuous if I
did not acknowledge that God has blessed me and my household, not necessarily financially or materially, but with overflowing grace that translates into a life of
contentment and praise..
In my experience, if a person gets to a place of
contentment, they are better equipped to bring joy into the lives of others because they don't need to focus so much attention inwardly.
The article just talks about religion... you
do not have to follow a religion to have well being and
contentment in your life.
I
do try to balance this truth with the promises of joy and
contentment that is found through living in the Kingdom.
If you don't, it will eat away your innate
contentment.
Many coaches who didn't live happily ever after in the NFL are finding
contentment in college ball
I'm trying to not make my
contentment with the team conditional on what they
do next.
The comments he made a few weeks ago where he intimated his
contentment with his defensive options and the reported interest in Gareth Barry and Xabi Alonso
do suggest that it will be a midfielder rather than a centre - back that he is after.
Do we really want the set point to be below
contentment only to rise if something comes along to break the sad spell?
But
do so knowing you are moving him or her from one perfect moment to another — a stance that shifts us internally from agitation to
contentment, from beside ourselves to our united whole.
Right now you are fortunate enough that your son's
contentment to sleep alone is coupled with your desire for him to sleep alone, but things
do not always work out so neatly.
You can look for other clues as well, such as
contentment when she is
done feeding and five to eight wet diapers per day, depending on the type of diaper you are using, to reassure you that her nutrition is just right.
For the parents within the throes of divorce grappling with issues of trust, perhaps the better question is, «How
does the parent find inner peace and
contentment and the fortitude to re-establish relationships after blatant and unequivocal wrongfulness?»
Although some women report
contentment with how quickly they heal, your organs may have
done a bit of readjustment.
One always forgets that on budget day, Cameron has to
do PMQs with no one listening or caring, and then sit down and stay fixated on the chancellor for an hour or so, nodding his ever - reddening head in zealous agreement, smile uncompromisingly fixed like the interest rate, hands clasped in desperate
contentment.
Living in a wealthy democracy, being married, having a rich social network, and adhering to a religion
do boost
contentment, but altogether life circumstances count for no more than 8 to 15 percent of the variance in happiness among people.
People's ratings of their own
contentment rose until they were bringing in about $ 75,000 a year but further increases in income
did not increase happiness, and people aren't as excited about raises after they've hit the 75K mark either.
They say you can't know the peace / awareness /
contentment until you
do it.
What
do you think they might
do to achieve that
contentment?
They are Saucha (cleanliness or personal hygiene, including mental purity), Santosa (means
contentment), Tapas (self discipline), Swadhaya (means self - study, which can mean studying the nature of one's own mind and
doing inquiry into one's own reality) and Iswara Pranidhana (which means total acceptance of life, facing all life situations with equanimity.
But in the end, this pose is not about stretching or
doing anything; it's about letting go of craving — for achieving a deeper stretch, or your busy life's goals — and finding
contentment.
And I don't like attaching any one religious philosophy to
contentment in life.
And the more you
do it, the more you will turn transient states into longstanding emotional memories that foster the deep - seated satisfaction and
contentment we all yearn for.
Do good, feel good Volunteering can promote
contentment in a couple of ways.
Contentment, understood as a deep sense of happiness, doesn't go away with bad experiences but rather grows over time.
It's easy for me to want to kick
contentment to the curb and race toward the nearest Madewell, but that's just not how I want to
do it.
However, ultimately, I
did find more
contentment from this challenge and can absolutely see more potential in the pieces I chose than I would have otherwise.
Superficial judgemets
do not equal long term
contentment.
i
do believe in happiness is
contentment and live life as it is the last..
Don't talk about dull or depressing things but make the conversation joyful, which leaves the other person with
contentment.
Captain America met my expectations of what a superhero movie should be, but it
did nothing to hide the
contentment of nearly everyone involved to
do good enough, nothing more, nothing less; it also felt no need to mask the fact that it is, like Kenneth Branagh's Thor, merely a wind - up for Joss Whedon's upcoming The Avengers.
Both characters are consumed with an inability to allow themselves
contentment; in reality they
do not even understand what it is.