If anything was done in it that glorifies Christ, it had to be from Him. I was just … went along for the joy and pleasure trip.
– Paris Reidhead –
Joy & Happiness
Do This When You Get a Blessing From God – Oswald Chambers
Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to him as a love gift. … Offer the blessing back to him in a deliberate act of worship. If you hoard a thing for yourself, it will turn into spiritual dry rot, as the manna did when it was hoarded. God will never let you hold a spiritual thing for yourself; it has to be given back to him that he may make it a blessing to others.
– Oswald Chambers –
What Happiness Depends Upon – JC Ryle
Jesus can make those happy who trust him and call him, whatever be their outward condition. He can give them peace of heart in a prison, contentment in the midst of poverty, comfort in the midst of bereavements, joy on the brink of the grave. There is a mighty fullness that is ready to be poured out on every one that will ask in prayer. Oh that people would understand that happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
– JC Ryle –
from A Call to Prayer
Thomas Watson on Prayer
Christ was in an agony at prayer (Luke 22: 44). Many when they pray are rather in a lethargy, than in an agony. When they are about the world they are all fire; when they are at prayer, they are all Ice.
– Thomas Watson –
May 30, 2015
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
– Billy Sunday –
March 10, 2015
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.
March 4, 2015
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called “The rejoicing of hope.”
March 3, 2015
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
March 2, 2015
Laughter and tears are the warp and woof of life. If you leave them out of preaching, you are leaving out life itself.