Quotes about Fulfillment
Keep Christ as the blazing center, and you will be satisfied; the world will be served; and God will be glorified.
— John Piper
Everything we need to be satisfied in God, the cross has made certain. It cannot fail.
— John Piper
Christmas means: the infinitely self-sufficient God has come not to be assisted but to be enjoyed.
— John Piper
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
— John Piper
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.
— John Piper
Our mistake lies not in the intensity of our desire for happiness, but in the weakness of it.
— John Piper
The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
— John Piper
If you are sufficient for your task it's too small.
— John Piper
Therefore, the reason God seeks our praise is not because He won't be complete until He gets it. He is seeking our praise because we won't be complete until we give it. This is not arrogance. It is love.
— 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 live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.
— John Piper