Quotes about Satisfaction

If we become enamored with something in this world we think offers better fullness than God, we will make room for it. We leak out His fullness to make room for something else we want to chase.

God never intended for us to want anything more than we want Him.

God made us capable of craving so that we'd have an unquenchable desire for more of Him, and Him alone. Nothing changes until we make the choice to redirect our misguided cravings to the only One capable of satisfying them.

Is it possible we love and rely on food more than we love and rely on God?

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

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.

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