Religion:Sole Satisfier
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Sole Satisfier is a term in Christian theology which refers to God as the only one who can satisfy human beings.
Saints
Cyprian
Cyprian is one of the Fathers of the Church.
- To those who seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness, he has promised to give all else besides. Since everything indeed belongs to God, he who possesses God wants for nothing, if he himself is not found wanting before God.[1]
Teresa of Avila
Teresa of Avila was a Mystic and is a Doctor of the Church. God as the Sole Satisfier of human longing is one of the central teachings of the Discalced Carmelite reform that she and St. John of the Cross collaborated upon in the 16th century.
- Let nothing trouble you
- Let nothing frighten you
- Everything passes
- God never changes
- Patience
- Obtains all
- Whoever has God
- Wants for nothing
- God alone is enough.[2]
See also
- Eastern Catholicism
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Fall of man
- Foolishness for Christ
- Hermit
- Hesychasm
- Kenosis
- Theosis
Notes
- ↑ "CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2830". Scborromeo.org. http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2830.htm. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
- ↑ "CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 227". Scborromeo.org. http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/227.htm. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
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