Quotes About Fulfillment

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You have all you need. A home, children, work that satisfies you. What do you need with a man?

I mean, I'll have everything I want here when you are. So, yes, absolutely yes.

A man can't work too hard at something he loves.

She'd just be more satisfied if my happiness aligned with her point of view.

What was it like, she wondered, to wake up every morning knowing exactly where you belonged and where you were going?

One must be both subjectively involved in and objectively detached from life, and that true happiness rests neither in the one sphere nor in the other exclusively, but rather in achieving a harmonios balance - however fragile - between the two.

Francis Collins put it, "Why would such a universal and uniquely human hunger exists, if it were not connected to some opportunity for fulfillment?

In the Old Testament the Rose of Sharon is just budding, but in the New Testament it is in full bloom. The whole Bible is all about Jesus.

Somehow it's hard to quit with an odd number of fish, so I wanted one more for four

She did not want the pleasurable and comfortable mediocrity in which she now wallowed to be the sum of her life.

No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually okay, because I will never satisfy a woman, either. Should I be writing such thoughts? Perhaps not. Perhaps it's a bad idea. I can definitely foresee a scenario where that first paragraph could come back to haunt me, especially if I somehow became marginally famous.

When given the choice, we'd all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we'll all be sad later.

Within these strangely specific conditions, everything is perfect. We are perfect.

If you want to know what time it is on God's clock, look at Israel. Understand Israel—it's the only nation that has its origin, history, ups and downs, and destiny all written out in advance for the diligent.

Earlier, in Hour 9, we examined Daniel 9 where the angel Gabriel told Daniel that from the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem unto Messiah the King would be 173,880 days, sixty-nine weeks of 360-day years. If you do the arithmetic, you'll discover that the number of days between the Decree of Artaxerxes Longimanus on March 12, 445 B.C., to the triumphal entry which happened on April 6, A.D. 32, is precisely 173,880 days.

The Coming King We have therefore established the integrity of the package – the identity of Jesus Christ and His authentication of His identity by fulfillment of prophecy.

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

Sex pretty much cures everything.