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Quotes about Satisfaction

The cross welcomes us to look inside and around us and be dissatisfied. It welcomes us not to the dissatisfaction that leaves us hopeless, but a dissatisfaction that leads us to the foot of the cross where mercy and grace are found.
- Paul David Tripp
you love the gifts and not the Giver, your heart will never be satisfied, but if you love the Giver, your heart will be content and you will be able to enjoy his gifts while keeping them in their proper place.
- Paul David Tripp
What will you hook your heart to today in the hope that it will give you life?
- Paul David Tripp
What is that lie? It is the lie that was first told in the garden of Eden—the false promise that life, heart-satisfying life, could be found somewhere outside the Creator. It is the lie of lies, the cruelest lie ever told. If you believe it, it will not only leave you empty and discouraged, but it will set your life on a course of destruction.
- Paul David Tripp
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."5
- Paul David Tripp
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.
- Paul David Tripp
At the end of the day, what do you long for: for God's grace to do its work or for more of the stuff that this physical created world has to offer?
- Paul David Tripp
None of us is yet a grace graduate, but we're satisfied. We all give evidence that we still need to grow, but we're satisfied. And because we are satisfied, we are resistant to the grace that is our only hope.
- Paul David Tripp
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.
- Paul David Tripp
If you put too many things in your need category, you will end up frustrated with life, hurt by others, and doubting God's goodness.
- Paul David Tripp
the true crisis in the modern evangelical church is not dissatisfaction; it's the opposite. We're all too satisfied.
- Paul David Tripp
If you seek satisfaction, satisfaction will escape your grasp. But if you seek God, rest in his presence and grace, and put your heart in his most capable hands, he will satisfy your heart as nothing else can. You were made for him. Your heart was designed to be controlled by worship of him. Your inner security is meant to come from rest in him. Your sense of well-being is intended to come from a reliance on his wisdom, power, and love.
- Paul David Tripp