Quotes About Fulfillment

Most of our life is a gorging of one artificially inflamed appetite after another.

Therefore, the reason God seeks our praise is not because He won't be complete until He gets it. He is seeking our praise because we won't be complete until we give it. This is not arrogance. It is love.

You're not all that God has called you to be, as a follower of Jesus, if you're missions-minded but not engaged in God's mission here and now.

Labor, therefore, to fill your hearts with the cross of Christ . . . that there may be no room for sin.

Every man, whatsoever his condition, desires to be happy. There is no man who does not desire this, and each one desires it with such earnestness that he prefers it to all other things; whoever, in fact, desires other things, desires them for this end alone.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion.

He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

O trabalho de um compositor talentoso é criar expectativas e depois ou satisfazê-las ou frustrá-las. Mas o compositor não pode nem deve tentar um empolgamento constante. Como em qualquer história que se conte, ou mesmo num espetáculo de fogo de artifício, acrescentam-se algumas passagens mais calmas, deliberadamente, para que os momentos importantes causem mais efeito.

The way to get better pornography is to give pornographers better sex.

Chapter 14 shows how America's pressure on Israel to do something God said not to do, give up its God-given land, will result in the fulfillment of Genesis 12:3, that those who curse Israel will be cursed.

there are 1,239 prophecies in the Old Testament, and 578 prophecies in the New Testament. Those 1,817 prophecies include 8,352 verses. And because there are 31,124 verses in the Bible, those 8,352 verses are about 27 percent of the total, meaning that over one-fourth of the Bible is prophecy. (Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy, by J. Barton Payne).

My wants are many, and, if told, would muster many a score; and were each wish a mint of gold, I still would want for more.

A great place to work is one in which you trust the people you work for, have pride in what you do, and enjoy the people you work with. ~ Robert Levering, Co-Founder, Great Place to Work

A woman always has her children, but a man is what he does. Where's the meaning in a life like that?

Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

It is a feature of human sociability that we are by ourselves but parts of what we might be.

Just the absence of loneliness. Thats love enough.

Isnt it possible that wanting to be wanted Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or 'loved' Ã¢â'¬Â¦ could be as much an aspect of what you call 'love' as actually loving back?" I said. "I mean, in choosing someone to 'love' you—to be loved by—while that other person chooses you to 'love'—doesnt one complete the need of the other?

Intentional states function only given a set of Background capacities that do not themselves consist in intentional phenomena. Thus, for example, beliefs, desires, and rules only determine conditions of satisfaction—truth conditions for beliefs, fulfillment conditions for desires, etc.—given a set of capacities that do not themselves consist in intentional phenomena. I

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.