Quotes about Happiness

The most serious religious objection to Purgatory, on the part of Protestants, is that the anticipation of the pains of Purgatory detracts from a happy death ("blessed are the dead who from now on die in the Lord"—Rev 14:13). But that is like saying that the pains of labor detract from the joy of childbirth. Deferred happiness is still happiness. In

Yet one's joy will be greater than another's on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness

These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. —JOHN 15:11

Success isn't about things we acquire.

Laugh and grow strong.

She put her hands together in a pious attitude and segued into a Princess Bride persona. "Mawwiage . . . mawwiage is what bwings us togevah today . . . mawwiage and twue wuv.

Do you know when she started praising the Wallers so highly?" Mama went on. "The day she left them. As long as she was there, she had nothing but complaints. The Wallers couldn't compare with the van Hooks where she'd been before. But at the van Hooks she'd actually been miserable. Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings, Corrie. It's something we make inside ourselves.

Happiness is not dependent on happenings, but on relationships in the happenings.

There are some, like me, who are called to live a single life," I said softly. "For them it is always easy for they are, by their nature, content. Others, like Ellen, are called to prepare for marriage which may come in later life. They, too, are blessed, for God is using the in-between years to teach them that marriage is not the answer to unhappiness. Happiness is found only in a balanced relationship with the Lord Jesus.

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings…it's something we make inside ourselves.

If we believe that God wants us happy above all else, rather than acknowledging that our role is to serve God, we wrongly believe that God exists to serve us. God becomes a a means to our end: happiness.

Sometimes what we think will make us happy is the opposite of what God wants for us.