Quotes about Fulfillment

Creation was never designed to satisfy your heart. Creation was made to be one big finger pointing you to the One who alone has the ability to satisfy your heart.

Here's what happens to us all - we seek horizontally for the personal rest that we are to find vertically, and it never works. Looking to others for your inner sense of well-being is pointless.

Perhaps in ways that you have never come close to considering, your dissatisfaction is an awe problem.

God will call you to do what you cannot do, but will provide everything you need to do it.

If a system could give us what we need, Jesus would never have come.

All of God's rules are an outgrowth, an expression of, or an application of the thing for which we were made—relationship with him.

You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.

When I opt for a me-centered "more," what I actually get is always much, much less.

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence, because you were created to be an "above and more" being. You were made to be transcendent.

We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

Whatever sits on the other side of your "if-only" is where you are looking for life, peace, joy, hope,

Because earth will never be your savior. This physical, created world, with all of its sights, sounds, locations, experiences, and relationships, has no capacity to make your heart content. This physical world was designed by God to be one big finger that points you to the only place where your heart will find satisfaction and rest. Your heart will rest only when it finds its rest in God, and God alone.