Proverbs 23:17-18 (NIV) 17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the LORD. 18 There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV) A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
1 Timothy 6:6 (NIV) But godliness with contentment is great gain.
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. George Macdonald (1824-1905)
Edythe Draper, Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World, (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1992), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, 103.
