Quotes about Satisfaction

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.

Faith is most satisfied and cherished with what is infinite and inconceivable, as resting absolutely in divine revelation.

Now, for what sins he made satisfaction, for them the justice of God is satisfied; which surely is not done for the sins of the reprobates, because he justly punisheth them to eternity upon themselves, Matt. v. 26.

They must glaze, adorn, and dress the objects of the flesh, and bring them home to give satisfaction; and this they are able to do, in the service of a defiled imagination, beyond all expression.

When a stranger comes up to me in the street and tells me that something in life is better because of a movement I'm part of, it is way more satisfying than a fancy house or car.

Those with extra money discover how much more satisfying it is to see talent and fairness grow than to see objects accumulate. Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake has a lot for a lot of people, it does for me…

Happy the man who dies before he prays for death.

If we have not quiet in our own minds, outward comforts will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.