Quotes about Fulfillment
St. Thomas mentions the three things necessary to attain any end, earthly or Heavenly: knowledge, love, and presence;
— Peter Kreeft
For everything naturally desires good
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We want to complexify our lives. We don't have to, we want to. We want to be harried and hassled and busy. Unconsciously, we want the very thing we complain about. For if we had leisure, we would look at ourselves and listen to our hearts and see the great gaping hole in our hearts and be terrified, because that hole is so big that nothing but God can fill it.
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he rewards our efforts with peace and joy.
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Happiness can get boring, because it is the satisfaction of our desires, and we know what we desire. (Can you desire what you do not know?) Joy never gets boring because it transcends our desires and surprises them with gifts.
— Peter Kreeft
The flood of love will fill all the containers to the fullest, but some containers will be larger than others.
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However, when once perfect happiness has been attained, nothing will remain to be desired because then there will be full enjoyment of God
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desire will be at rest, not only our desire for God but all our desires; so that the joy of the blessed is full to perfection—indeed, over-full, since they will obtain more than they were capable of desiring
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Yet one's joy will be greater than another's on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness
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Yet one's joy will be greater than another's on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness
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each one needs something outside itself to actualize its potentiality for change.
— Peter Kreeft
And since perfected souls will be incapable of envy, all will rejoice in their lesser level of brightness, because it will be exactly what God wills for the common good; and all will identify with that common good as the fulfillment of their individual good, rather than a rival to it, as we fools do now.
— Peter Kreeft