 Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Happiness, Health |
| Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Happiness, Success |
| Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission—its masterpiece is, to reunite them. Author: Alexandre Vinet
Topics: Religion |
| If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love. Author: Amy Carmichael
Topics: Happiness, Humility |
| Nature teaches us that every believer should be a soul-winner. It is an essential part of the new nature. We see it in every child who loves to tell of his happiness and to bring others to share his joys. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Evangelism |
The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.
- Elton Trueblood Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Happiness |
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We are sinners simply because we choose to sin or live selfishly. We are never held accountable for what we are not the author of. Ability is always the measure of responsibility. God has given us the ability to direct our lives, either according to intelligence in recognition of our obligation to God and our fellowmen, or according to selfishness and unintelligence in the supreme seeking of our own happiness.
- Gordon Olson Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Obedience, Responsibility |
My heart tells me that if I have the happiness of being employed in this mission, I will go and not return; but I shall be happy if the Lord will complete the sacrifice where He has begun it, and make the little blood I have shed in that land, the earnest of what I would give.
- Isaac Jogues Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Evangelism, Sacrifice, Missions |
Our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery.
- Philip Skelton Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Character |
| When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame. Author: Augustine
Topics: Happiness, Joy |
| Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. Author: Augustine
Topics: Happiness, Ignorance |
| Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; Where your treasure is, there is your heart; Where your heart is, there is your happiness. Author: Augustine
Topics: Wealth, The Heart, Happiness |
| In the destiny of every moral being there is an object more worthy of God than happiness. It is character. And the grand aim of man's creation is the development of a grand character, and grand character is, by its very nature, the product of probationary discipline. Author: Austin Phelps
Topics: Happiness |
| God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there. Author: Billy Graham
Topics: Heaven, Animals |
| There once was in man a true happiness of which now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present. But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God Himself. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Happiness, God |
| Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Happiness |
| Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Beauty, Reasoning |
| Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Happiness |
| All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Happiness, Men |
| Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Happiness |
| Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Happiness, Honesty |
| There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: The Last Battle
Topics: Happiness |
| The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Pain |
| Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Happiness |
| God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Happiness, Peace |
| The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Happiness |
| Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose... only (upon) the Beloved who will never pass away. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Happiness |
| The Scriptures teach that the happiness or blessedness of believers in a future life will be greater or less in proportion to the service of Christ in this life. Those who love little, do little; and those who do little, enjoy less. Author: Charles Hodge
Topics: Service |
| It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Happiness |
| I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Holiness, Purity |
| It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: 46.427.
Topics: Happiness, Sin |
| Happiness is caused by things that happen around me, and circumstances will mar it; but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows on through the dark; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows all through persecution and opposition. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Joy |
| A man with no sense of religious duty is he whom the Scriptures describe in such terse but terrific language, as living "without God in the world." Such a man is out of his proper being, out of the circle of all his duties, out of the circle of all his happiness, and away, far, far away, from the purposes of his creation. Author: Daniel Webster
Topics: Religion |
| If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. Author: David Brainerd
Topics: Happiness |
| 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
Topics: Happiness, Joy |
| There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. Author: Francis Bacon
Topics: Happiness, Wisdom, Foolishness |
| The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And while the Lord desires that we enjoy His gifts and the people to whom we are joined, He wants us to know that we were created first for His pleasure. Author: Francis Frangipane
Topics: Happiness |
| There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. Author: Francois Fenelon
Topics: Virtue, Doctrine |
| Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Topics: Happiness |
| Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Topics: Happiness |
| The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Topics: Happiness |
| Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. Author: G.K. Chesterton
Topics: Happiness |
| I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Author: G.K. Chesterton
Topics: Reasoning, Thankfulness |
| I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it. Author: George Washington
Topics: Politics |
| The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected, will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter. Author: George Washington
Topics: Happiness, Morality |
| The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practise of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government. Author: George Washington
Topics: Government, Virtue, Happiness |
| Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, under no form of government are laws better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind. Author: George Washington
Topics: Government, Happiness, Liberty |
| The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character. That which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife. Author: Hannah More
Topics: Education |
| Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Author: Helen Keller
Topics: Happiness |
| No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. Author: Helen Keller
Topics: Happiness |
| No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. Author: Helen Keller
Topics: Happiness |
| Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Author: Helen Keller
Topics: Happiness, Joy |
| When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Author: Helen Keller
Topics: Happiness |
| Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties. Author: Helen Keller
Topics: Success, Happiness, Adversity |
| The most obvious lesson in Christ's teaching is that there is no happiness in having or getting anything, but only in giving. Author: Henry Drummond
Topics: Giving |
| Love is success, Love is happiness, Love is life. God is Love. Therefore LOVE. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: The Greatest Thing in the World.
Topics: Love |
| There is only one thing greater than happiness in the world, and that is holiness; and it is not in our keeping; but what God HAS put in our power is the happiness of those about us, and that is largely to be secured by our being kind to them. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: The Greatest Thing in the World.
Topics: Happiness, Holiness |
| I say that man believes in a God, who feels himself in the presence of a Power which is not himself, and is immeasurably above himself, a Power in the contemplation of which he is absorbed, in the knowledge of which he finds safety and happiness. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, Death, p. 162.
Topics: God |
| There is no happiness in having and getting, but only in giving ... half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: The Greatest Thing in the World.
Topics: Giving |
| There is no mystery about Happiness whatever. Put in the right ingredients and it must come out. He that abideth in Him will bring forth much fruit; and bringing forth much fruit is Happiness. The infallible receipt for Happiness, then, is to do good; and the infallible receipt for doing good is to abide in Christ. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Pax Vobiscum, p. 56.
Topics: Happiness |
| Nothing that happens in the world happens by chance. God is a God of order. Everything is arranged upon definite principles, and never at random. The world, even the religious world, is governed by law. Character is governed by law. Happiness is governed by law. The Christian experiences are governed by law. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Pax Vobiscum, p. 17.
Topics: Providence |
| The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Happiness, Contentment |
| Happiness is not the end of life; character is. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Character |
| Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Prayer |
| Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Happiness |
| The strength and happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going that way too. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Happiness |
| Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. Author: Hosea Ballou
Topics: Happiness |
| Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. Author: Hosea Ballou
Topics: Character |
| Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways. Author: Isaac Watts
Topics: Happiness, Sin, Deception |
| Happiness is untested delight. Joy is delight tested. Author: Jack Hyles
Topics: Happiness, Joy |
| Happiness and comfort stream immediately from God himself, as light issues from the sun; and sometimes looks and darts itself into the meanest corners, while it forbears to visit the largest and the noblest rooms. Author: James H. Aughey
Topics: Happiness, Comfort |
| Happiness without peace is temporal; peace along with happiness is eternal. Author: James H. Aughey
Topics: Happiness, Peace |
| On the head of Christ are many crowns. He wears the crown of victory; He wears the crown of sovereignty; He wears the crown of creation; He wears the crown of providence; He wears the crown of grace; He wears the crown of glory - for every one of His glorified people owes his honor, happiness and blessedness to Him. Author: James H. Aughey
Topics: Christ, Providence |
| The great comprehensive truths written in letters of living light on every page of our history are these: Human happiness has no perfect security but freedom; freedom none but virtue; virtue none but knowledge; and neither freedom nor virtue has any vigor of immortal hope, except in the principles of Christian faith, and in the sanctions of the Christian religion. Author: James H. Aughey
Topics: History, Christianity, Freedom |
| Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Happiness, Men |
| For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond Him - they will never yield Him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in Him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to Him. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Service |
| 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
Topics: Happiness, Christianity, Discipline |
| I see in this world two heaps--one of happiness, and the other of misery. Now, if I can take but the smallest bit from the second, and add it to the first, I carry a point. I should be glad indeed to do great things; but I will not neglect such little ones as this. Author: John Newton
Topics: Life |
| Oh, what great happiness and bliss, what exaltation it is to address oneself to the Eternal Father. Always, without fail, value this joy which has been accorded to you by God's infinite grace. Author: John of Kronstadt
Topics: Happiness, Joy |
| The climax of God's happiness is the delight He takes in the echoes of His excellence in the praises of His people. Author: John Piper
Topics: Praise, Excellence |
| God's interest is to magnify the fullness of His glory by spilling over in mercy to us. Therefore the pursuit of our interest and our happiness is never above God, but always in God. God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him. Author: John Piper
Topics: Happiness |
| Interest is to magnify the fullness of His glory by spilling over in mercy to us. Therefore the pursuit of our interest and our happiness is never above God, but always in God. God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him. Author: John Piper
Topics: Happiness |
| The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness. Author: John Selden
Topics: Marriage, Cheerfulness, Sacrifice |
| The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. Author: Jonathan Edwards
Topics: Praise, Happiness |
| By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us. Author: Jonathan Edwards
Topics: Redemption |
| It is no small happiness to attend those from whom we may receive precepts and examples of virtue. Author: Joseph Hall
Topics: Virtue |
| We must preserve our moral foundation and the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as gifts of God. Then we need to demand that anyone who wishes to represent us do the same. Author: Judge Roy Moore
Topics: Morality, Liberty |
| The disappointment has come - not because God desires to hurt you or make you miserable or to demoralize you or ruin your life or keep you from ever knowing happiness. He wants you to be perfect and complete in every aspect, lacking nothing. It's not the easy times that make you more like Jesus, but the hard times. Author: Kay Arthur
Topics: Suffering, Disappointment |
| Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God. Author: Madame Guyon
Topics: Prayer |
| Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, "I thank Thee, Saviour, because Thou has died for me." Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus. Author: Ole Hallesby
Topics: Blessings |
| Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. Author: Oswald Chambers
Topics: Holiness |
| Financial pursuits and gains are not the key to happiness; the key is keeping God first. Author: Paul Chappell
Topics: Finances |
| Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Author: Phillips Brooks
Topics: Happiness, Service |
| To be a true minister to men is always to accept new happiness and new distress. The man who gives himself to other men can never be a wholly sad man; but no more can he be a man of unclouded gladness. To him shall come with every deeper consecration a before untasted joy, but in the same cup shall be mixed a sorrow that it was beyond his power to feel before. Author: Phillips Brooks
Source: The Influence of Jesus, H.R. Allenson, 1875, p. 191.
Topics: Struggles, Joy, Consecration |
| Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Author: Rick Warren
Topics: Happiness |
| The loving and much loved wife is satisfied with the love of her husband; his smile is her joy, she cares little for any other. So, if you have come to Christ, thy Maker is thine husband - His free love to you is all you need, and all you can care for - there is no cloud between you and God - there is no veil between you and the Father; you have access to Him who is the fountain of happiness - what have you to do any more with idols? Oh! if your heart swims in the rays of God's love, like a little mote swimming in the sunbeam, you will have no room in your heart for idols. Author: Robert Murray McCheyne
Topics: Contentment, Jesus |
| Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has its springs deep down inside. And that spring never runs dry, no matter what happens. Only Jesus gives that joy. He had joy, singing its music within, even under the shadow of the cross. Author: S.D. Gordon
Topics: Joy, Happiness |
| A little child often runs to its mother and exclaims: 'Mother! Mother!' Very often the child does not want anything in particular, he only wants to be near his mother, to sit upon her lap, or to follow her about the house, for the sheer pleasure of being near her, talking to her, hearing her dear voice. Then the child is happy. His happiness does not consist in asking and receiving all kinds of things from his mother. If that were what he wanted, he would be impatient and obstinate and therefore unhappy. No, his happiness lies in feeling his mother's love and care, and in knowing the joy of her mother love." "It is just the same with the true children of God; they do not trouble themselves so much about spiritual blessings. They only want to sit at the Lord's feet, to be in living touch with Him, and when they do that they are supremely content. Author: Sadhu Sundar Singh
Topics: Contentment |
| If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it. Author: Sadhu Sundar Singh
Topics: Happiness, Philosophy |
| Influence never dies; every act, emotion, look and word makes influence tell for good or evil, happiness or woe, through the long future of eternity. Author: Thomas a Kempis
Topics: Virtue, Eternity |
