Quotes About Fulfillment

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.

Let your life proceed by its own design.

I may be going to hell in a bucket Babe, at least I'm enjoying the ride.

I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end." - Paul

It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, "I've wasted it!" then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

God is most glorified when you are most satisfied in Him.

The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, "What is permissible?"—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn't want a minimal life. I didn't want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy

The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.

Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

We should waken to the truth that it is a treacherous sin not to pursue our fullest satisfaction in God.

Suppose you answer, "I want to be free from self and full of joy in God; I want to enjoy making much of God, not me. And I want the fullness of my joy to last forever." If you respond this way, then you will also have an answer to the fear I mentioned earlier, that you are just being used by God when he creates you for his glory. Now we see that in creating us for his glory, he is creating us for our highest joy. He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

Sometimes what we need from the Bible is not the fulfillment of our dream, but the swallowing up of our failed dream in the all-satisfying glory of Christ. We do not always know the path of deepest joy.

himself. This is the meaning of his coming. This

Sometimes people ask: should we pursue obedience to God or joy in God? Edwards would answer: The question involves a category confusion. It's like asking: should I pursue fruit or apples? Obedience is doing what we are told. And we are told to delight ourselves in the Lord. Therefore pursuing joy in God is obedience. In

You made us for yourself and our hearts find no peace till they rest in you.

We will not find a frustrated, gloomy, irritable Father who wants to be left alone, but a Father whose heart is so full of joy that it spills over unto all those (Christian Hedonists) who are thirty.

Él dominará hasta los confines de la tierra", profetizó Miqueas. No habrá ninguna resistencia que no sea aplacada. Nuestra seguridad no será amenazada por fuerzas extranjeras. Toda rodilla se doblará y toda lengua lo confesará como Señor. Toda la Tierra será llena de Su gloria.

No siempre tuve en claro que la búsqueda de la gloria de Dios sería prácticamente lo mismo que la búsqueda de mi propio gozo. Ahora veo que millones de personas desperdician sus vidas porque creen que estos caminos son dos senderos diferentes y no el mismo.

In other words, in all my rejoicing over all the good things that God has made, God himself is the heart of my joy, the gladness of my joy. In all my rejoicing in everything, there is a central rejoicing in God. Every joy that does not have God as its central gladness is a hollow joy and in the end will burst like a bubble. This is what led Augustine to pray, "He loves thee too little who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for thy sake."2

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.