Quotes About Fulfillment

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence,

To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be.

Tienes todo lo que necesitas para vivir como Dios quiere que vivas!

The DNA of joy is gratitude.

You are always looking for something to which you can attach your identity, your hopes and dreams, and your inner peace.

Creation was made to be one big finger pointing you to the One who alone has the ability to satisfy your heart.

Christ has already placed in my storehouse everything that I need.

I was wired for awe of God. No other awe satisfies the soul.

There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound than our relatively meaningless day-by-day existence.

What do I really want in life: the success of God's agenda of grace or the fulfillment of my catalog of desires?

Human relationships are most satisfying when we enter them not just to please ourselves or even the other person, but to please God.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. LEWIS12

What is the big vision that you're working toward? What is the big dream you are investing in? What is your definition of the "good life"? When will you know that you have been successful? If you had it all, what would "all" look like?

You and I were created for more than filling up our schedules with the self-satisfying pursuits of personal pleasure.

the more you focus on your own neediness, the more your desires will be christened as needs.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The desire resides in each of us, and it is called transcendence. To transcend is to be part of something greater. We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

Your heart will never be satisfied in things. No, your heart will be satisfied only in the Giver of the things. If you seek happiness, happiness will elude you.

You and I never could have started at the fall of Adam and Eve and used reason to predict the coming of Jesus and his death on the cross. Old Testament believers knew that God was going to deal with sin and give new life to his people because God told them that this was what he was going to do. But they did not know that the death of the Son of God would be the means by which this would happen.

You're going to hunger for some success in life. May you hunger for the complete success of the gospel in your heart.

You were put here for the purpose of the glory of another. This is not a lifestyle option; it is in the very nature of your humanity. To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be.

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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."5

Creation was never designed to satisfy your heart. Creation was made to be one big finger pointing you to the One who alone has the ability to satisfy your heart.