Quotes About Fulfillment

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

When seen through the lens of a servant's heart, leadership becomes not just a job but a calling. Lives are changed for the better. Next-generation leaders are molded. Along the way, the sense of destiny God planted in each individual soul finds fulfillment.

When we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for, we play in the very idolatry that church was created to dismantle.

More of anything other than God will never fill that longing for fulfillment He has placed within you and me.

With God, we can be satisfied and fulfilled with very little, but without Him, all that we have will always be dry and deeply disappointing.

When your soul is satisfied, you have everything even if you have nothing. And when your soul is not at peace, you have nothing no matter what you have attained or acquired.

When I know God's place, I can know my place— then things start to fall into place.

Without a complete view of sin, people can burn out in their pursuit of pleasure.

In our deepest longings we hear echoes of God's longing for us. And the more we can follow these deep-down desires, those that God places within us for our happiness, the more joyful we will find ourselves.

All work has dignity. No job, when done freely, is ignoble.

The problem was that whenever I considered "earning a living," I thought mostly about the "earning" and nothing about the "living.

The most grateful pilgrim is the one who has finished the longest journey.

But this is about more than just work, a job, or even a career. Vocation may have little to do with one's actual work. For the deepest vocation is to become who you are, to become your "true self," the person whom God created and calls you to be.

Vocation is different from work or a job or even a career. You could say that work is the labor required to do a task. A job is the situation in which you do it. A career is the long-term trajectory or pattern of many jobs. But vocation is deeper than each of those concepts.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

I'm not shooting for happy. I'm aiming for comfortable and fat.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. –Steve Jobs

To be fully compensated for what one gave of oneself in the struggle for a title is to be restored to the condition one was in prior to competition.

We display the success of what we have done by not having to do anything.

I've often been asked, "What's the payoff for having integrity?" My answer is simple. If you live with integrity, I promise you'll be a happier person and live a more satisfying life. You will have a level of clarity, resolve, and confidence that sets you apart from the crowd.

So the new creation will be a place of never-ending, ever-increasing joyful relationship with God and with one another, but what will we actually do there? The answer is that we will reign over creation!

Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.

Do we fulfill our obligations by being practical all the time?