Quotes about Fulfillment

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Those who risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures.

Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly

Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly refreshment is at best a sipping from intermittent springs, but God is the ocean!

But we must never read such promises, or anything in the Old Testament, as if Jesus had not come and the New Testament had not been written.

the Old Testament must always be read in light of the New. I never read such Old Testament texts without immediately asking, "Does the New Testament shed additional light on how I am to understand the nature of such promises and their recipients?

God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment