Below are three quotes that I took from another page.
Have you ever felt that there must be something more to life? Have you sensed an emptiness within your soul? The truth is that money, possessions, prestige, power and people cannot fulfill that deeper hunger we all have.
C.S. Lewis wrote, “Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing.”
Two weeks ago, the pastor preached on the human soul and our desires. He gave scenarios about people trying to find security/satisfaction/love/acceptance in their looks, success, wealth, power, people, and how in the end we are never fully satisfied. Of course momentarily, temporary satisfaction will be there... but thats the issue... it doesn't last, but we have this longing and desire for it too.
Blaise Pascal, the French philosopher and mathematician, wrote, “Within each human being there is a God-shaped void.”
Hmm...
Have you ever felt that there must be something more to life? Have you sensed an emptiness within your soul? The truth is that money, possessions, prestige, power and people cannot fulfill that deeper hunger we all have.
C.S. Lewis wrote, “Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing.”
Two weeks ago, the pastor preached on the human soul and our desires. He gave scenarios about people trying to find security/satisfaction/love/acceptance in their looks, success, wealth, power, people, and how in the end we are never fully satisfied. Of course momentarily, temporary satisfaction will be there... but thats the issue... it doesn't last, but we have this longing and desire for it too.
Blaise Pascal, the French philosopher and mathematician, wrote, “Within each human being there is a God-shaped void.”
Hmm...
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