Quotes About Happiness

Tal como dijo George Macdonald, ministro escocés del siglo XIX: Los ricos no son los únicos que están bajo el dominio de las cosas materiales; también son esclavos los que, sin tener dinero, son infelices por la falta del mismo.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is. C. S. LEWIS Surprised by Joy1

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. And? Like ham and eggs? Sometimes you glorify God and sometimes you enjoy Him? Sometimes He gets glory, sometimes you get joy?

Los ricos no son los únicos que están bajo el dominio de las cosas materiales; también son esclavos los que, sin tener dinero, son infelices por la falta del mismo.

God's glory consists much in the fact that He is happy beyond all our imagination.

The strength of our desire is not the measure of the strength of the final pleasure.

The Christian's holiness and happiness in God are not two separate realities. Happiness in God is the essence of holiness.

The fight for joy is the fight to see and believe Christ as more to be desired than the promises of sin.

Doubtless the happiness of the saints in heaven shall be so great, that the very majesty of God shall be exceedingly shown in the greatness, and magnificence, and fullness of their enjoyments and delights.

From the purest principles of reason, as well as from the fountain of revealed truth, he demonstrates that the chief and ultimate end of the Supreme Being, in the works of creation and providence, was the manifestation of his own glory in the highest happiness of his creatures.

Delighting in God was not a mere preference or option in life; it was our joyful duty and should be the single passion of our lives. Therefore to resolve to maximize his happiness in God was to resolve to show him more glorious than all other sources of happiness. Seeking happiness in God and glorifying God were the same.

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.

The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?"32 "The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted."33

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.5

God's respect to the creature's good, and his respect to himself, is not a divided respect; but both are united in one, as the happiness of the creature aimed at is happiness in union with himself.

This delight which God has in his creature's happiness cannot properly be said to be what God receives from the creature. For it is only the effect of his own work in and communications to the creature, in making it and admitting it to a participation of his fullness, as the sun receives nothing from the jewel that receives its light and shines only by a participation of its brightness.

Our mistake lies not in the intensity of our desire for happiness, but in the weakness of it.

So God's eternity is not a distinct good; but is the duration of good. His immutability is still the same good, with a negation of change. So that, as I said, the fullness of the Godhead is the fullness of his understanding, consisting in his knowledge; and the fullness of his will consisting in his virtue and happiness.

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

God communicates himself to the understanding of the creature, in giving him the knowledge of his glory; and to the will of the creature, in giving him holiness, consisting primarily in the love of God: and in giving the creature happiness, chiefly consisting in joy in God.108 These are the sum of that emanation of divine fullness called in Scripture, the glory of God. The first part of this glory is called truth, the latter, grace

Sin can't enslave a person who is utterly confident and sure and hope-filled in the infinite happiness of life with Christ in the future.

Every man, whatsoever his condition, desires to be happy. There is no man who does not desire this, and each one desires it with such earnestness that he prefers it to all other things; whoever, in fact, desires other things, desires them for this end alone.

Cuando creemos que el Señor está más lejos de nosotros o nos ha vuelto la espalda, la verdad es que, mientras nos aferramos a Él, el Señor pone el fundamento para mayor felicidad en nuestra vida. No juzgues con débil sentido al Señor, Más bien confía en Él por su gracia; Detrás de una providencia agobiante Él esconde su rostro sonriente.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him