Quotes about Fulfillment
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.
— Thomas Merton
IF you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men—you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write only for yourself you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted you will wish that you were dead.
— Thomas Merton
Hope is the wedding of two freedoms, human and divine, in the acceptance of a love that is at once a promise and the beginning of fulfillment.
— Thomas Merton
My true personality will be fulfilled in the Mystical Christ in this one way above all, that through me, Christ and His Spirit will be able to love you and all men and God the Father in a way that would be possible in no one else.
— Thomas Merton
We have found Him, He has found us. We are in Him, He is in us. There is nothing further to look for except for the deepening of this life we already possess. Be content.
— Thomas Merton
You and I and all men were made to find our identity in the One Mystical Christ, in Whom we all complete one another "unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ.
— Thomas Merton
Perhaps the book of life, in the end, is the book of what one has lived and if one has lived nothing, he is not in the book of life.
— Thomas Merton
This final meal that Jesus ate with His disciples, commonly referred to as the Last Supper, was really a Passover Seder (ceremonial meal) that Jesus and His disciples celebrated. Not only did Jesus eat the Passover with His disciples, but He also taught them how the key elements of the Passover Seder pointed to and found their ultimate fulfillment in Him.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
In choosing a bare bones existence, we are enriched, and can redefine success as an internal process rather than an outward display of wealth and power.
— Kathleen Norris
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!
— CS Lewis
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
— CS Lewis
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
— CS Lewis