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Quotes About Happiness

Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God's presence.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'
~ C. S. Lewis
Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.
~ Alfred Noyes
Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.
~ Francis of Assisi
I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
~ James Hillman
Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.
~ John Muir
Our God is so wonderfully good, and lovely, and blessed in every way that the mere fact of belonging to Him is enough for an untellable fullness of joy!
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
Be happy! God sees in you another God. God sees you as another God. God sees you and He as One.
~ Sri Chinmoy
The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.
~ Epictetus
God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.
~ John Piper
Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
~ Nanci Griffith
O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint Thomas of Aquin: Thou hast spoken well of Me, Pierre!
~ Peter Julian Eymard
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
~ Giacomo Casanova
I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.
~ Alice Walker
It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.
~ John Piper
O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness
~ William Ellery Channing
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
~ William Law
Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure
~ Epicurus
Whatever you experience outwardly, take it within yourself and say 'I'm happy because I'm happy. I'm happy because God is in my heart.'
~ Goswami Kriyananda
since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.
~ Martin Luther
The commands of God are given, not to rob me of joy, but lead me into the fullness of joy.
~ Matt Chandler