Quotes about Satisfaction

When we taste something that we think is good, our longings cease to ache, for a minute, but later we find ourselves empty once more, needing to be filled again and again.

There is a satisfaction we don't want to come to until we come to it in God....[Disappointments] serve to remind us every day that we cannot make life work the way we want....If we'll let it, the disappointment can be God's way of continually drawing us back to himself.

He must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

The only failure is not knowing how to be happy."

Success without fulfillment is failure.

He that deserves nothing should be content with anything.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

Gratitude is not something we give to God because he wants to make sure we know how much trouble he went to over us. Gratitude is the gift God gives us that enables us to be blessed by all his other gifts, the way our taste buds enable us to enjoy the gift of food. Without gratitude, our lives degenerate into envy, dissatisfaction, and complaints, taking what we have for granted and always wanting more.

The problem with people, according to Jesus, is not that we are too happy for God's taste, but that we are not happy enough.

I cannot conceive an intention in God that Christ should satisfy his justice for the sin of them that were in hell some thousands of years before, and yet be still resolved to continue their punishment on them to all eternity.