Quotes about Satisfaction
God is not worshiped where He is not treasured and enjoyed. Praise is not an alternative to joy, but the expression of joy. Not to enjoy God is to dishonor Him. To say to Him that something else satisfies you more is the opposite of worship. It is sacrilege.
— John Piper
But if you want to glorify the worth of a spring you do it by getting down on your hands and knees and drinking to your heart's satisfaction
— John Piper
Most of our life is a gorging of one artificially inflamed appetite after another.
— John Piper
Every man, whatsoever his condition, desires to be happy. There is no man who does not desire this, and each one desires it with such earnestness that he prefers it to all other things; whoever, in fact, desires other things, desires them for this end alone.
— John Piper
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him
— John Piper
If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.
— John Piper
The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?
— John Piper
He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
— John Piper
Fill each day with life and heart. There is no pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good person takes in doing good.
— John Tillotson
By resting content with small blessings, we disqualify ourselves for receiving the Spirit in unlimited fullness.
— Ellen White
The benefit you derive from your food does not depend so much on the quantity eaten, as on its thorough digestion, nor the gratification of the taste so much on the amount of food swallowed as on the length of time it remains in the mouth.
— Ellen White
Human beings have a hard time regarding anything beautiful without wanting to devour it.
— Barbara Brown Taylor