What They Said

"While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God."

"I cannot pretend to determine what ministers, or what body of people come nearest the character of the primitive times, but in my judgment they are the happiest who have the lowest thoughts of themselves, and in whose eyes Jesus is most glorious and precious.

"Those that look to be happy must first look to be holy."

'The believer in Christ should of necessity be a happy man. Though like the Master whom he loves—and loving he serves—his path in some places may be paved with flint, or fenced with briar, yet amid it all, fed from the fullness of Christ, and living upon the supply of the covenant, yes, upon the God of the covenant, he is, and he must be, a truly happy man.'

"To be truly happy "a man must have sources of happiness which are not dependent on anything in this world." There is nothing on earth which is not stamped with the mark of instability and uncertainty. All the good things that money can buy are but for a moment: they either leave us or we are obliged to leave them. All the sweetest relationships in life are liable to come to an end: death may come any day and cut them off. The man whose happiness depends entirely on things here below is like him who builds his house on sand."

“God formed us originally for himself, and has therefore given the human mind such a vastness of desire, such a thirst for happiness as he alone can answer;  and therefore, till we seek our rest in Him, in vain we seek it elsewhere.”

"It is a vain thing for any to suppose that they place their chiefest happiness in being for ever in the presence of Christ, who care not at all to be with him here as they may."

"Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous."

"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."

by - Frans Pourbus the Younger

"The test of happiness is gratitude."

“God formed us for himself, and has given the human such a vastness of thirst for happiness as He alone can answer.”

“If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.”

‎"Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart."

"Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life."

"The enjoyment of [God] is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams. But God is the ocean."

“The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted”