He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
Happiness
James MacDonald
When we shift from personal purity to personal happiness, we lose biblical hope because we are not focusing on God’s agenda, we are focusing on our own. God’s agenda is guaranteed on our agenda is not.
James MacDonald
A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Author Unknown
Money will buy a bed but not sleep, books but not brains, food but not appetite, finery but not beauty, medicine but not health, luxury but not culture, amusement but not happiness, a crucifix but not a Saviour, a temple of religion but not heaven.
Stormie Omartian
We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.
Katherine Walden
Have you ever noticed that the world viciously attacks and slanders those who appear to be ‘too happy and too loving’, suspecting that their happiness and loving actions are all an act? And yet, the world either leaves the “terminally negative” people much to their own devices or, worse yet, it idolizes such negativity and labels it a savvy, wise, and discerning.
Unfortunately, this worldly culture has infiltrated many churches and some ministries have even built their platform around labeling the happy ones as heretics.
C. S. Lewis
I didn’t go to Christianity to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
Francis Frangipane
How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life. The husband or wife who has Christ as their life, comes to their spousal relationship already satisfied. They do not come continually looking to made happy by another person’s attention; they bring Christ’s life to their spouse.
Jean Nicolas (J N) Grou
But how shall we rest in God? By giving ourselves wholly to Him. If you give yourself by halves, you cannot find full rest – there will ever be a lurking disquiet in that half which is withheld…All peace and happiness in this world depend upon unreserved self-oblation to God. If this be hearty and entire, the result will be an unfailing, ever-increasing happiness, which nothing can disturb. There is no real happiness in this life save that which is the result of a peaceful heart.