All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness. Author: William Law |
Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself. Author: William Law |
Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways. Author: Isaac Watts |
Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as travelling, that is, making visits to other towns, cities, or countries beside those in which we were born and educated. Author: Isaac Watts |
The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.' Author: Elisabeth Elliot |
Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God's majesty. Author: A.W. Pink |
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Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Author: Rick Warren |
Happy are those whose self-centered lives have been crushed and reshaped by the Master's hand to be full of mercy. Author: John Hagee |
Christianity certainly involves hardship and discipline. But it is founded on the solid rock of old fashioned happiness. Jesus is in the happiness business. Author: John Hagee |
He that bears the privations of the gifts of God and the esteem of men, with an even soul, knows how to enjoy his Supreme Good beyond all time and above all means. Author: Madame Guyon |
Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Author: Phillips Brooks |
No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be. Author: A.W. Tozer |