Your heart may be kept from shrinking back at [death] by considering the necessity of death, in order to the full fruition of God. Whether you are willing to die or not, I assure you there is no other way to obtain the full satisfaction of your soul and complete its happiness.
—John Flavel
Happy is the Christian that has a little band of friends that meet together regularly for prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
It is only a wink, and you shall see God. Your happiness shall not be deferred till the resurrection, but as soon as the body is dead the gracious soul is swallowed up in life (Rom 8:10–11).
—John Flavel
… until we truly humble ourselves, forgetting other people, and those who are worse than we are, until we see ourselves as we are in the sight of God, and confess our sins and come it ourselves into His Almighty hands, we have no right to look for peace and happiness.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
—George Washington
When an eagle is happy in an iron cage,
when a sheep is happy in water,
when an owl is happy in the blaze of the noonday sun,
when a fish is happy on dry land;
then, and not till then, will I admit that
an unholy man could be happy in Heaven.
There is no happiness in comfort.
Happiness comes from suffering.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
What lies within you is far more vital for your happiness than what you own.
—Leo Tolstoy
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
—George Washington
“If your proud flesh should rebel, pray it down; for, rest assured that, if you were so selfish as only to wish to do that which would promote your own happiness, it would be the path of wisdom to be obedient to your Lord and Master.”
Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. – C.S. Lewis
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wean yourself from using your words to condemn others and you’ll feel an increase in your ability to live in your soul; you’ll feel an increase in life and happiness.
—Leo Tolstoy
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ‘happy’ is not included in the plan of ‘creation.’
—Sigmund Freud
Do not, my dear brother, I beseech you, dispute against your own happiness.
—George Whitefield
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.
—John Locke
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.
—John Locke
Money comes and goes, happiness is not in them. The most important thing in the world will always be the people who were with you in the most difficult times.
—Taras Shevchenko
I live, I study. I don’t bow to anyone and I don’t fear anyone but God. It is a great happiness to be a free person.
—Taras Shevchenko