Quotes about Fulfillment

We love to carry heaven to heaven with us, and would have two summers in one year, and no less than two heavens; but this will not be for us: one, and such an one, may suffice us well enough. The Man Christ got but one only, and shall we have two?

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time.

[Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another.

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

The happiest people are those who have harvested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy.

Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.

. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.