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Nine Requisites for Contented Living: Quote of the Week

January 12, 2013 By Jean Wise



Nine requisites for contented living: 

– Health enough to make work a pleasure. 


– Wealth enough to support your needs. 


– Strength 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.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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About Jean Wise

I am a writer and speaker at retreats, gatherings and seminars. I have been a spiritual director since 2006 and also work as a Deacon for my church. I love nourishing others closer to God. Check out my books available on Amazon, traditionally and self-published. Learn more about me at: https://healthyspirituality.org/blog/biography/

Comments

  1. blankJean Wise says

    January 15, 2013 at 11:28 pm

    Thanks for stopping by and commenting Deborah.

  2. blankJean Wise says

    January 15, 2013 at 11:27 pm

    Thanks for your wonderful comment, Clella!

  3. blankDeborah Avila says

    January 14, 2013 at 2:36 am

    Marvelous message !1

  4. blankClella Camp says

    January 13, 2013 at 10:48 pm

    Good food for thought here. Thanks Jean…Clella

  5. blankJean Wise says

    January 13, 2013 at 1:18 am

    I agree nNncy, lots to ponder with this quote

  6. blankNancy Ruegg says

    January 12, 2013 at 10:20 pm

    ‘Love this quote–lots of food for thought. ‘So glad you chose to share it with us.

  7. blankMia De Vries says

    January 12, 2013 at 5:27 pm

    Hi Jean
    Yes, we do need big doses of all these good wishes! Thank you.
    Hugs XX
    Mia

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