Nine requisites for contented living:
Health enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support your needs.
Stength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of God.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
~Goethe~
4 comments:
Good Sunday Morning Jan! A very encouraging and thought provoking post! Jeannie
I love this. Thanks!
Hi Jan, it's nice to have stumbled upon your lovely blog!
I love your sentiments in today's post! well done, and oh so true!
I'm your newest follower...do come by for a sip of tea sometime at my two blogs...
Creative Carmelina, I would love to see you were there!
This is really good. I liked the last line especially. xo
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