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 –
Joy & Happiness
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.
February 17, 2015
A carnal heart thinks, I must have my wants made up or else it is impossible that I should be content. But a gracious heart says, “What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?”
– Jeremiah Burroughs –
from The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, 1648
February 14, 2015
Our business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
– Brother Lawrence –
January 20, 2015
A life spent in the service of God and in communion with him, is the most pleasant life that any one can live in the world.
– Matthew Henry –
December 28, 2014
I was thinking, the other day, how different Christ is from all the friends and helpers that we have. They bring us good things, but Jesus gives us Himself. He does not merely give us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption, but He Himself is made of God all these things to us! Hence we can never do without Him. When very ill, you are pleased to see the doctor, but when you are getting well you say to yourself, “I shall be glad to see the back of the good man, for that will be a sure sign that I am off the sick list.” Ah, but when Jesus heals a soul, he wants to see Jesus more than ever! Our longing for the constant company of our Lord is the sign that we are getting well! He who longs for Jesus to abide with Him, forever, is healed of his plague! We never outgrow Christ—we only grow to hunger more and more!
– Charles Spurgeon –