Quotes About Fulfillment

Therefore, Christ crucified is the foundation of all honest and everlast- ing joy. No self-deception is necessary to enjoy it. Indeed all deception must cease in order to enjoy it to the full.

What is the chief aim of man? Man's chief aim is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

We are kidding ourselves when we romanticize death as the climax of a life well lived. It is an enemy. It cuts us off from all the wonderful pleasures of this world. We call death sweet names only as the lesser of evils. The executioner that delivers the coup de grace in our suffering is not the fulfillment of a longing, but the end of hope. The longing of the human heart is to live and to be happy.

People give way to sexual sin because they don't have fullness of joy and gladness in Jesus.

God will be glorified both by the intensity of the present delight that we have in his beauty and by the intensity of the desires we have for more revelation of his fullness.

God's work does not make our work unnecessary; it makes it possible.

We live under the new covenant. But the mark of that new covenant is not the absence of commands, but the blood-bought power to obey them.

El fin principal del hombre es glorificar a Dios y gozar de Él para siempre".2 Gozar de Dios es la manera de glorificar a Dios porque Dios se glorifica más en nosotros cuando nosotros estamos más satisfechos en Él.

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. And? Like ham and eggs? Sometimes you glorify God and sometimes you enjoy Him? Sometimes He gets glory, sometimes you get joy?

He may be frustrating you with life that is not centered on Christ and filling you with longings and desires that can't find their satisfaction in what this world offers, but only in the God-man.

The hardened disobedience of men's hearts leads not to the frustration of God's plans, but to their fruition.

In dying he satisfied the claims of sin; and in living he satisfies the claims of God.

Christ is the glory we were made to see. His light alone will fill us and give the light of life and meaning to every part of our lives. And

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.

The strength of our desire is not the measure of the strength of the final pleasure.

Keep Christ as the blazing center, and you will be satisfied; the world will be served; and God will be glorified.

Everything we need to be satisfied in God, the cross has made certain. It cannot fail.

Christmas means: the infinitely self-sufficient God has come not to be assisted but to be enjoyed.

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.5

It is not a bad thing to desire our own good. In fact, the great problem of human beings is that they are far too easily pleased. They don't seek pleasure with nearly the resolve and passion that they should. And so they settle for mud pies of appetite instead of infinite delight.

Our mistake lies not in the intensity of our desire for happiness, but in the weakness of it.

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

If you are sufficient for your task it's too small.