Quotes about Incompleteness

Our present experience, even our present Christian experience, is incomplete. But in Christ we have heard the complete tune; we know now what it sounds like and that we shall one day sing it in tune with him. Our present experience, with all its incompleteness, is meant to point us to the fact that we will one day wake up and arise from sleep. That, after all, is what resurrection is all about. It

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

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

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

Prayer is an expression of who we are…. We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

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.

The whole, vast world was incomplete without me. Creation reached its finishing touch in me.

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

There are days when I am convinced that Heaven starts already, now, in this ordinary life just as it is, in all its incompleteness, yet, this is where Heaven starts.. see within yourself, if you can find it. I walked through the field in front of the house, lots of swallows flying, everywhere! Some very near me..it was magical. We are already one, yet we know it not.

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

All temporal, partial experience of God inevitably leaves a sense of dissatisfaction behind.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.