Everything Is Never Enough Quotes

“By God’s design, the sustenance that keeps you from dying is not bitter or tasteless but endless varieties of delicious. The necessary is needlessly delightful. This marriage of survival and delight is not a happy accident but a strategically planted clue to the secret of everything. This universe is the creation of a God so rich and full in himself that he needs nothing and no one else to be infinitely satisfied. This universe is not a symptom of need but a signature of generosity.”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness

“All pleasures are not created equal. Some pleasures free; others enslave. Some pleasures dignify; others degrade. Do you know the difference? Does your life display the difference?”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness

“Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness

“When Qohelet commends a little quietness over a lot of striving, he is saying that there are limits to what work will give you, so there should be limits to what you give work. If you try to grasp gain with two hands, both will come up empty. There is no contentment without knowing and submitting to limits.”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness

“The modern West's control complex catechizes you to think of yourself as the captain of a vessel cutting a razor-straight course through life's succession of storms. But you're not the captain; you're not even on the boat. In the end, you're a fish in the ship's net.”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness

“All wealth is loaned from God’s library. What should you do with it? Enjoy it. Share it. Remember that it’s due soon.”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness

“But in God’s world”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness

“One way to be unhappy is to lack what you most want. Another is to get all you could possibly want and discover that everything is never enough.”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness