Quotes About Fulfillment

Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

Once you have the right relationship with God through salvation and sanctification, remember that whatever your circumstances may be, you have been placed in them by God. And God uses the reaction of your life to your circumstances to fulfill His purpose, as long as you continue to "walk in the light as He is in the light" (1 John 1:7).

As a saint, my life's spiritual honor and duty is to fulfill my debt to Christ in relation to these lost souls.

It is much better to fulfill the purpose of God in your life by discerning His will than it is to perform great acts of self-sacrifice.

Once I press myself into action, I immediately begin to live. Anything less is merely existing. The moments I truly live are the moments when I act with my entire will.

There must be a mechanical [physical] outlet for spiritual inspiration. You must DO [in the physical] what you see [in the spiritual], or become BLIND in that particular.

The more you fulfill yourself the less you will seek God.

Dejection stems from one of two sources—I have either satisfied a lust or I have not had it satisfied. In either case, dejection is the result. Lust means "I must have it at once.

Lord God Omniscient, give me wisdom this day to worship and work aright and be well pleasing to Thee. Lord, interpret Thyself to me more and more in fulness and beauty.

He who believes in Me . . . out of his heart will flow rivers of living water"—and hundreds of other lives will be continually refreshed. Now is the time for us to break "the flask" of our lives, to stop seeking our own satisfaction, and to pour out our lives before Him. Our Lord is asking who of us will do it for Him?

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Más vale una vida breve, llena de hazañas y de nobleza, que una vida larga sin contenido

But if the world only toss you a cake, only keep you well fed and well fattened, what a good and a fair world it is, how full of all sweetness and light, how true in its vision, how pure in its excellence;

its entire purpose is to enable me to feel good about myself.

Life is good, if you like that sort of thing.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

And if it wasn't as good as before, what was the point of doing it? There wasn't a point, as far as I was concerned.

Five kids in one lifetime ain't bad – and I love them all so much. They're the best things that ever happened to me, no question about it.

If I had stayed in the community I would not be starving. it's as simple as that. . . . but if I'd stayed ... I would have starved in other ways. I would have lived a life hungry for feelings . . . for love.

His was a life which lacked, perhaps, the sublimer emotions which raised Man to the level of the gods, but it was undeniably an extremely happy one. He never experienced the thrill of ambition fulfilled, but, on the other hand, he never knew the agony of ambition frustrated....

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realization turns into self-absorption, other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.