One-minute testimonials for contentment vs Covetousness



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Character in Real Life

ONE-MINUTE TESTIMONIALS


For CONTENTMENT vs Covetousness
Faith Committee, Character Council of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky
www.charactercincinnati.org

Contentment is realizing that true happiness does not depend on material conditions.


DIOGENES


By Steve Withrow

Pastor / Editor – Charlotte, NC




Being content to live without wealth or status can protect you from the temptation to compromise that so often accompanies a fondness for wealth and position. The philosopher Diogenes (410-320 BC) was a contemporary of Plato, Aristippus, and Alexander the Great. He held to a view that possessions were corrupting, was homeless by choice, and lived a life of simplicity, independence, and rejection of worldly luxury, believing that contentment could not be found in wealth or status.
Aristippus was a hedonist who preached pleasure as the greatest good, and found his contentment by courting the wealthy who could support his consuming lifestyle. He had ingratiated himself to prominence under the tyrant-king Dionysius of Syracuse in Sicily, and had sacrificed his integrity for pleasure.
Aristippus once saw Diogenes washing the lentils (beans) that went into soup which was the mainstay of his diet.
“Oh Diogenes, if you could but learn to do such a small thing as flattering Dionysius, you would not have the sad fate of living on lentils,” said Aristippus.
“Aristippus,” Diogenes replied, “if you could but learn to do such a small thing as living on lentils, you would not have the sad fate of having to flatter Dionysius.”


Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything I need for my present and future happiness.



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