Quotes about Satisfaction

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.

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.

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.5

It is not a bad thing to desire our own good. In fact, the great problem of human beings is that they are far too easily pleased. They don't seek pleasure with nearly the resolve and passion that they should. And so they settle for mud pies of appetite instead of infinite delight.

Our mistake lies not in the intensity of our desire for happiness, but in the weakness of it.