It’s not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
– Charles Spurgeon
Contentment | Happiness
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.
– C.S. Lewis
Happiness
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness | Contentment
Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose… only (upon) the Beloved who will never pass away.
– C.S. Lewis
Happiness
Christianity certainly involves hardship and discipline. But it is founded on the solid rock of old fashioned happiness. Jesus is in the happiness business.
– John Hagee
Happiness | Christianity | Discipline
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
– David Brainerd
Happiness
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.
– S.D. Gordon
Joy | Happiness
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
– C.S. Lewis
Happiness | Peace
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
– Blaise Pascal
Happiness
When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is absolute. Your anger is actually the way the idol keeps you in its service, in its chains. Therefore if you find that, despite all the efforts to forgive, your anger and bitterness cannot subside, you may need to look deeper and ask, ‘What am I defending? What is so important that I cannot live without?’ It may be that, until some inordinate desire is identified and confronted, you will not be able to master your anger.
– Tim Keller
Anger | Bitterness | Forgiveness | Happiness | Idolatry
Happy are those whose self-centered lives have been crushed and reshaped by the Master’s hand to be full of mercy.
– John Hagee
Happiness | Mercy
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.
– Helen Keller
Happiness
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.
– A. W. Tozer
Happiness | Holiness
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.
– James H. Aughey
Happiness | Comfort
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
– Blaise Pascal
Happiness | Freedom
All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.
– Blaise Pascal
Happiness | Men
Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
– Isaac Watts
Happiness | Sin | Deception
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.
– William Law
Happiness | Freedom | Love
I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.
– Charles Spurgeon
Christians | Happiness
All that we call human history–money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery–[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
– C.S. Lewis
Rebellion | Happiness | History
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
– Blaise Pascal
Happiness
Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.
– Helen Keller
Success | Happiness | Adversity
Jesus makes you happy in reality. The world makes you happy escaping from reality.
– Jack Hyles
Happiness
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.
– George Washington
Happiness | Morality
If man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
– Blaise Pascal
Happiness
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.
– Blaise Pascal
Happiness | God
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; Where your treasure is, there is your heart; Where your heart is, there is your happiness.
– Augustine
Wealth | The Heart | Happiness
Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God’s majesty.
– A. W. Pink
God | Happiness
God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful of leaving it (dying), as well as to stir in our hearts a longing and yearning and holy anticipation for what is yet to come.
– Sam Storms
Happiness
They are the happiest Christians, who have the lowest thoughts of themselves, and in whose eyes Jesus is most glorious and precious.
– John Newton
Happiness
Nothing is happy until it fulfills the purpose for which it was created by God.
– Jack Hyles
Happiness
Happiness is untested delight. Joy is delight tested.
– Jack Hyles
Happiness | Joy
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness
God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.
– A. W. Tozer
Success | Happiness | Carnality
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
– Hosea Ballou
Happiness | Joy
The strength and happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going that way too.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
– Charles Kingsley
Happiness | Comfort
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
– Blaise Pascal
Happiness
God is not a cosmic killjoy. I know some people who believe He is. They think God runs around saying, “There’s one having fun; get him!” They believe God wants to rain on everybody’s parade. But that isn’t so. God made you. He knows how you operate best. And He knows what makes you happy. The happiness He gives doesn’t stop when the party’s over. It lasts because it comes from deep within.
– John MacArthur
God | 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.
– George Washington
Government | Happiness | Liberty
Try to be happy in this very present moment; and put not off being so to a time to come; as though that time should be of another make from this, which is already come, and is ours.
– Thomas Fuller
Happiness | Time
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.
– Francis Bacon
Happiness | Wisdom | Foolishness
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
– Blaise Pascal
Happiness
As we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.
– Blaise Pascal
Happiness
All mankind’s unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
– Blaise Pascal
Happiness
Do you want a happy heart when you are old? Then get with the Lord and stay with Him. That is how it works.
– Shelton Smith
Happiness | Age
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.
– Helen Keller
Happiness
Christ’s life unfolds, in part, as we learn to appreciate the gifts He has given us. How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life. (For example) 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.
– Francis Frangipane
Blessings | Happiness
Happiness without peace is temporal; peace along with happiness is eternal.
– James H. Aughey
Happiness | Peace
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
– Helen Keller
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.
– Austin Phelps
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.’
– Elisabeth Elliot
Happiness | Joy
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.
– Henry Drummond
Happiness | Holiness
If a man would lead a happy life, let him but seek a sure object for his trust, and he shall be safe: “He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.” He hath laid up his confidence in God, therefore his heart is kept in an equal poise.
– Thomas Manton
Happiness
The purpose of existence is the pursuit of enjoyment…in God! Our desires, affections, pursuits, all that we say and do, all that we love or hate, are to be measured by this single criterion and subordinated to this one end: happiness in God.
– Sam Storms
Life | Happiness
When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
– C.S. Lewis
Holiness | Happiness
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.
– William Law
Happiness
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness | Laughter
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.
– John of Kronstadt
Happiness | Joy
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness
I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.
– Charles Spurgeon
Happiness
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.
– Henry Drummond
Happiness
The root of our sinfulness is the desire for our own happiness apart from God and apart from the happiness of others in God. All sin comes from a desire to be happy cut off from the glory of God and cut off from the good of others.
– John Piper
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.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
– Thomas Aquinas
Carnality | Happiness | Joy
It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.
– Charles Spurgeon
Happiness | Sin
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
– C.S. Lewis
Happiness | Joy
Lord, make me happy enough in the grace of Jesus to avoid being proud, cold, scared, and hooked.
– Tim Keller
Grace | Happiness
The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.
– Assorted Authors
Happiness
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
– Frederick W. Robertson
Happiness
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.
– Augustine
Happiness | Joy
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
– William Cowper
Happiness
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.
– Francis Frangipane
Happiness
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
– Hosea Ballou
Happiness
Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.
– C.S. Lewis
Happiness | Honesty
It is a greater glory to us that we are allowed to serve God, than it is to him that we offer him that service. He is not rendered happy by us; but we are made happy by him. He can do without such earthly servants; but we cannot do without such a heavenly Master.
– William Secker
Service | Happiness
No one is really happy merely because he has what he wants, but only if he wants things he ought to want.
– Augustine
Happiness
Those that look to be happy must first look to be holy.
– Richard Sibbes
Happiness | Holiness
Possessions only provide temporary happiness.
– Rick Warren
Happiness
God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn… That is why it is no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion.
– C.S. Lewis
Happiness
If you understand what holiness is, you come to see that real happiness is on the far side of holiness, not the near side.
– Tim Keller
Happiness | Holiness
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.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness
Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness | Tolerance
The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.
– J.I. Packer
Happiness | Godliness
God would have us part with nothing for Him, but that which will damn us if we keep it. He has no design upon us, but to make us happy.
– Thomas Watson
Happiness
The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government.
– George Washington
Government | Virtue | Happiness
Affliction shows the power of Christ’s blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty, persecution and death. Do not be surprised if you suffer, but glorify God.
– Robert Murray McCheyne
Affliction | Peace | Happiness
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
– G.K. Chesterton
Happiness | Love | Brokenness
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
– Jeremy Taylor
Happiness | Men
The single most important principle I ever discovered is this: the goal or purpose of the Christian is precisely the pursuit of happiness – in God. The reason for this is that there is no greater way to glorify God than to find in Him the happiness that my soul so desperately craves.
– Sam Storms
Happiness | Christianity
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
– Helen Keller
Happiness
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.
– Amy Carmichael
Happiness | Humility
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
– Helen Keller
Happiness | Joy
Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.
– Thomas Fuller
Happiness | Men
There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
– Thomas Aquinas
Happiness
Success is getting what you want; happiness wants what you get.
– Woodrow Kroll
Success | Happiness
Let us be sure that our delights exclude not the presence of God: we may please ourselves so long as we do not displease Him.
– Thomas Adams
Happiness
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
– C.S. Lewis
Happiness | Rewards
God threatens terrible things if we will not be happy.
– Jeremy Taylor
Happiness