Quotes about Satisfaction

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Much of the disappointment and heartache we experience is the result of our attempts to get something from relationships that we already have in Christ.

We don't just struggle with want; we struggle with blessing as well.

Our purpose is to get what we want, but God's purpose is to give us what we really need.

Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

God's provision simply can't be reduced to answers and strategies because his provision is tied to his presence. God knows that our need is much bigger and deeper than what we think will satisfy it. So he not only gives us practical advice, he gives us himself.

relationships when they were meant to point us to the perfect relational satisfaction found only with God.

Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. 1

And yet it seems to me to be the one thing I have been looking for all my life.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure.

Peleando no se consigue jamás lo suficiente, pero cediendo se consigue más de lo que se espera.

people who would think they had committed a crime if they let their families or employees go for six days without food; but they will let them go for six days, and six weeks, and sometimes sixty years without giving them the hearty appreciation that they crave almost as much as they crave food.