Quotes about Fulfillment

In comparison with this big world, the human heart is only a small thing. Though the world is so large, it is utterly unable to satisfy this tiny heart. Our ever-growing soul and its capacities can be satisfied only in the infinite God.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

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.