“If contentment is learned by resting in what we cannot see, discontentment results from seeking rest in physical things.” Erik Raymond, Chasing Contentment: Trusting God in a Discontented Age (Crossway, 2017)(86–87)
“The Bible shows us that the natural impulse of the fallen nature is to crave self at the expense of God, while the new natures craves God as the fulfillment of self.”Erik Raymond, Chasing Contentment: Trusting God in a Discontented Age (Crossway, 2017) (95)
“The heart of the matter is that when we ourselves determine what will satisfy, we don’t pursue what brings true satisfaction. The broken compass within us always leads to the dumpster rather than the five-star restaurant.” Erik Raymond, Chasing Contentment: Trusting God in a Discontented Age (Crossway, 2017)(98)
“To see your need of Christ and his willingness to save you creates an explosion of happiness in the soul.” Erik Raymond, Chasing Contentment: Trusting God in a Discontented Age (Crossway, 2017)(107)
“Heaven is so happy because those who are there have come to see, without any impediments or weights of sin, that God is their all in all. In heaven there is eternal delight without the things we so often chase after.” Erik Raymond, Chasing Contentment: Trusting God in a Discontented Age (Crossway, 2017)(107)
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