Quotes About Happiness

Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.

Do you really want happiness? Then you will have to pay the price of humbling yourself at the foot of the cross and receiving Christ as Savior.

Happiness is a choice, but grief is a certainty.

Christ said there is a happiness in that acknowledgement of spiritual poverty which lets God come into our souls.

It is the presence of sin that prevents man from being truly happy.

The "do-it-yourself" rage is spreading everywhere, and people are being told that to be happy all they have to do is think "happy thoughts." Such thoughts might cheer us, but they will never change us.

There are things which money cannot buy; which no music can bring; which no social position can claim; which no personal influence can assure; and which no eloquence can command.

We say, "Happy are the clever, for they shall inherit the admiration of their friends"; "Happy are the aggressive, for they shall inherit a career"; "Happy are the rich, for they shall inherit a world of friends and a house full of modern gadgets." Jesus said, "[Happy] are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth" [see Matthew 5:5]. If we want the secret of happiness . . ."meekness" is a basic key.

God's house will be happy because Christ will be there.

God's star promised peace to the whole world . . .too often man's synthetic stars bring fear and anxiety. Our gadget-filled paradise, suspended in a hell of international insecurity, certainly does not offer us the happiness of which the last century dreamed. But there is still a star in the sky.

Delighting in the Lord alters the desires.

Hay dos clases de felicidad. Una nos llega cuando las circunstancias son placenteras y estamos relativamente libres de problemas. El inconveniente con esta clase de felicidad es que es fugaz y superficial.

The Bible teaches that faith is the only approach that we have to God. No man has sins forgiven, no man goes to heaven, no man has assurance of peace and happiness, until he has faith in Jesus Christ.

Most people yearn for one thing more than anything else: inner peace. Without it they have no lasting happiness or security.

In the last essay he wrote before he died, great Christian apologist C. S. Lewis said, "We have no right to happiness; only an obligation to do our duty." Of course it is in our duty that happiness comes. Try it.

The happiest people I know are separated followers of Jesus Christ. They are not dependent on artificial stimulants. They do not resort to sick, dirty jokes. They do not abuse their bodies to relax their minds.

We often seek to please ourselves first, instead of God. What is interesting is that when we seek to please God first, very often we discover that we end up far more pleased than we did when we put ourselves first.

God] knows that an uncontrolled life is an unhappy life, so He puts reins on our wayward souls that they may be directed into the "paths of righteousness.

Worries flee before a spirit of gratitude

The American Dream became America's god; wealth and abundance have become the measure of America's success. But—as recent events have shown—we have been living an illusion.

The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and the most adverse environment.

Some people spend so much time worrying about what might happen that they never enjoy what is happening. Take one day at a time. Today, after all, is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

felicidad que nuestro corazón desea no la afecta ni el éxito ni el fracaso, mora muy adentro de nosotros y nos da paz y contentamiento interiores, no importa cuál sea el problema en la superficie. Es el tipo de felicidad que no necesita ningún estímulo exterior.