Craig T. Owens

“There are nine requisites for contented living:

1. Health enough to make work a pleasure [Ecclesiastes 5:19*];
2. Wealth enough to support your needs [Proverbs 30:8-9];
3. Strength to battle with the difficulties and overcome them [1 Corinthians 15:57];
4. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them [James 5:16];
5. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished [Romans 5:3-5];
6. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor [Luke 10:25-37];
7. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others [Ephesians 4:2-3];
8. Faith enough to make real the things of God [Psalm 91];
9. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future [Psalm 33:18].” —Goethe

* The quote is from Wolfgang Goethe, but I added the Scripture references.