Quotes about Happiness

God is not working to deliver to you your personal definition of happiness. If you're on that agenda page, you are going to be disappointed with God and you are going to wonder if he loves you. God is after something better—your holiness, that is, the final completion of his redemptive work in you.

The DNA of joy is thankfulness. Have you noticed that entitled, complaining people don't happen to be very joyful?

Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy.

In all these warnings against pleasure, truth is mixed with untruth. Insofar as they strengthen our responsibility, they are true; insofar as they undercut our joy, they are wrong.

We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, G-d gives us the sun-and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that.

They have possessions without power, wealth without true worship, and prosperity without God's presence!

I'd rather be unhappy and know that God is with me, than be happy, comfortable and unsure of God's presence.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”

Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.

You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.