Joy & Happiness

Death is the gate of endless joy – Charles Spurgeon

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

– Charles Spurgeon –

Christians are to be happy at their death – Thomas Watson

See how happy are God’s saints at their death! They go to a kingdom! They see God’s face, which shines ten thousand times brighter than the sun in its meridian glory! They enter eternal glory, which is the quintessence of all delights!

– Thomas Watson –

Happy are those Christians – JC Ryle

Happy are those Christians who have learned of Jesus to live for others more than for themselves, and who understand that is is “more blessed to give than to receive.” (Acts 20:35)

– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke, 1858

One thing that exceeds all the pleasures and delights of the world – David Brainerd

Oh! One hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

– David Brainerd –

The more I gave away … – Hudson Taylor

My experience was that the less I spent on myself and the more I gave away, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become. Unspeakable joy all the day long, and every day was my happy experience.

– Hudson Taylor –

Joy of the Lord – Matthew Henry

The joy of the LORD will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies and put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.

– Matthew Henry –

We are far too easily pleased – CS Lewis

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and seek and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot image what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

– CS Lewis –