Quotes about Fulfillment
The sum of earthly bliss.
— John Milton
But now my task is smoothly done:I can fly, or I can run.
— John Milton
Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do what then thou would'st.
— John Milton
My race of glory run, and race of shame, and I shall shortly be with them at rest.
— John Milton
Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
— John Milton
Courtship is indeed a pleasing part of life when there is mutual affection, the consent of friends, the reasonable prospect of an eventual fulfillment, and when it is conducted in obedience to the will and worship of God. But when these concomitants are absent, what we call love becomes the most tormenting and destructive passion that can be named.
— John Newton
A career may end with retirement and lots of "toys." A calling isn't over until the day you die.
— John Ortberg
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
— John Piper
I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end." - Paul
— John Piper
It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, "I've wasted it!" then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.
— John Piper
God is most glorified when you are most satisfied in Him.
— John Piper
The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, "What is permissible?"—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn't want a minimal life. I didn't want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.
— John Piper