Quotes About Satisfaction

Sturdy contentment that can weather the storms of difficulty and want is always rooted in worship.

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

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

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

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

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

Ask yourself: What makes your good day a good day? What are the things that tend to make you happy and satisfied? What gives your life a sense of meaning and purpose? What are the things you faithfully pursue, and what are you hoping to experience once you get them? If I watched the video of your last year, what treasure would I conclude you're after?

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 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.

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.

None of us is yet a grace graduate, but we're satisfied. We all give evidence that we still need to grow, but we're satisfied. And because we are satisfied, we are resistant to the grace that is our only hope.

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.

If you put too many things in your need category, you will end up frustrated with life, hurt by others, and doubting God's goodness.

the true crisis in the modern evangelical church is not dissatisfaction; it's the opposite. We're all too satisfied.

If you seek satisfaction, satisfaction will escape your grasp. But if you seek God, rest in his presence and grace, and put your heart in his most capable hands, he will satisfy your heart as nothing else can. You were made for him. Your heart was designed to be controlled by worship of him. Your inner security is meant to come from rest in him. Your sense of well-being is intended to come from a reliance on his wisdom, power, and love.

In calling me to deny myself, God is freeing me from my bondage to me. Self-focus never leads to happiness, it never produces contentment, and it never results in a satisfied heart.

None of us is yet a grace graduate, but we're satisfied. We all give evidence that we still need to grow, but we're satisfied.

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.

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.

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

This physical, created world, with all of its sights, sounds, locations, experiences, and relationships, has no capacity to make your heart content. 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. You heart will rest only when it finds its rest in God, and God alone.