Quotes about Happiness
So much of what comes out of the faith community seems so dour and somber, and we want to say, 'Hey, we're real people. You can be a person of faith and really enjoy life and laugh.'
- Erwin McManus
Life is to be enjoyed, not endured
- Gordon Hinckley
Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
- Gordon Hinckley
The sum of earthly bliss.
- John Milton
Mirth, admit me of thy crew, to live with her, and live with thee ,In unreproved pleasures free.
- John Milton
Live while ye may,Yet happy pair.
- John Milton
It is indeed natural to us to wish and to plan, and it is merciful in the Lord to disappoint our plans, and to cross our wishes. For we cannot be safe, much less happy, but in proportion as we are weaned from our own wills, and made simply desirous of being directed by his guidance.
- John Newton
What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? "Me Father is very fond of me!
- John Ortberg
In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.
- John Piper
Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.
- John Piper
heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy
- John Piper
The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature
- John Piper