Quotes about Fulfillment
Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly
— Sam Storms
Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly refreshment is at best a sipping from intermittent springs, but God is the ocean!
— Sam Storms
But we must never read such promises, or anything in the Old Testament, as if Jesus had not come and the New Testament had not been written.
— Sam Storms
the Old Testament must always be read in light of the New. I never read such Old Testament texts without immediately asking, "Does the New Testament shed additional light on how I am to understand the nature of such promises and their recipients?
— Sam Storms
God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.
— Sam Storms
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
— Samuel Johnson
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment
— Samuel Johnson
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part
— Samuel Johnson
Pleasure itself is not a vice
— Samuel Johnson
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
— Samuel Johnson
For we that live to please must please to live.
— Samuel Johnson