Quotes about Fulfillment

What about self-denial, then? If you had a God, you'd have a reason for self-denial.' 'But industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

Ah, if only one had work of one's own, proper work, decent work—not forced upon one by the griping of one's belly!

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.

And that,' put in the Director sententiously, 'that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

Has your worship or devotional experience lately provided you with ravishing tastes of what A. W. Tozer called the "piercing sweetness" 7 of Christ, only to leave you with a divine discontent that desires more?

The Bible sets no percentage goal in giving. Giving 10 percent of your gross income does not necessarily mean you have fulfilled the will of God.

Those who eat too much and those who intentionally eat too little are looking for satisfaction in something other than God.

The irony of the empty soul is that while he is perpetually dissatisfied in so many areas, he is so easily satisfied in regard to the pursuit of God.

Find joy in God and you will find joy in doing the work of God.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.