Quotes about Fulfillment

There does not exist any more a holy mountain or a holy city or holy land which can be marked on a map. The reason is not that God's holiness in space has suddenly become unworthy of Him or has changed into a heathen ubiquity. The reason is that all prophecy is now fulfilled in Jesus, and God's holiness in space, like all God's holiness, is now called and is Jesus of Nazareth.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living

Only He who made man makes man happy.

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.