Quotes About Fulfillment

Here's what happens to us all - we seek horizontally for the personal rest that we are to find vertically, and it never works. Looking to others for your inner sense of well-being is pointless.

God will call you to do what you cannot do, but will provide everything you need to do it.

If a system could give us what we need, Jesus would never have come.

All of God's rules are an outgrowth, an expression of, or an application of the thing for which we were made—relationship with him.

You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.

That one special thing that you always wanted to accomplish never gets done because you lived each day under the tyranny of the urgent.

If you have been freed from needing success and acclaim to feel good about yourself, you know grace has visited you.

When I opt for a me-centered "more," what I actually get is always much, much less.

Here is the spiritual reality that you need to know, understand, and live in light of—if you love the gifts and not the Giver, your heart will never be satisfied, but if you love the Giver, your heart will be content and you will be able to enjoy his gifts while keeping them in their proper place.

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence, because you were created to be an "above and more" being. You were made to be transcendent.

This physical world was designed by God to be one big finger that points you to the only place where your heart will find satisfaction and rest.

When you are satisfied with the Giver, because you have found in him the life you were looking for, you are freed from the ravenous quest for satisfaction that is the discouraging existence of so many people. Yes, it is true that your heart will rest only ever when it has found its rest in him.

We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

Whatever sits on the other side of your "if-only" is where you are looking for life, peace, joy, hope,

Here it is. When the enemy somehow tricks you into squeezing the size of your life to the size of your personal dreams, wants, and needs, he has got you right where he wants you.

Yes, God has filled your life with glories of many kinds. There is never a day when you aren't greeted by those glories. But it is vital to remember that the glories that surround you every day in the world that God made are not meant to be your stopping point, because you were created to live for a greater, more glorious glory—the glory of God.

There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound

Because we live for our happiness, happiness always eludes us—???because every fulfilled desire is followed by yet another desire.

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. —Bill Hoest

We have peace because we know that he will complete the good things that he in grace has initiated in our lives.

Life is all about what we look to to fill us.

there is a deeper hunger within you than the physical hunger with which you are so familiar.

your body hungers to be filled, but your soul hungers even more.

Producing happiness involves deciding, designing, and doing, and