Quotes about Satisfaction

What is the chief aim of man? Man's chief aim is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

People give way to sexual sin because they don't have fullness of joy and gladness in Jesus.

The self was never designed to satisfy itself or rely upon itself. It never can be sufficient. We are but in the image of God, not the real thing. We are shadows and echoes. So there will always be an emptiness in the soul that struggles to be satisfied with the resources of self.

He may be frustrating you with life that is not centered on Christ and filling you with longings and desires that can't find their satisfaction in what this world offers, but only in the God-man.

But when we commend Christ as the one who satisfies our soul forever—even when there is no health, wealth, and prosperity—then Christ is magnified as more precious than all those gifts.

The great old catechism asks, "What is the chief end of man?" and answers, "Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever." Enjoying God is the way to glorify God, because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

In dying he satisfied the claims of sin; and in living he satisfies the claims of God.

The strength of our desire is not the measure of the strength of the final pleasure.

Keep Christ as the blazing center, and you will be satisfied; the world will be served; and God will be glorified.

Everything we need to be satisfied in God, the cross has made certain. It cannot fail.

Christmas means: the infinitely self-sufficient God has come not to be assisted but to be enjoyed.