Cheerful holiness is the most forcible of sermons.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Joy & Happiness
February 28, 2013
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex 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 imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
– CS Lewis –
February 6, 2013
I see that if I would be happy in God, I must give Him all.
– Elizabeth Prentiss –
January 20, 2013
Cheerfulness is the support of our strength; in the joy of the Lord are we strong.
– Charles Spurgeon –
January 8, 2013
How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose! … YOU drove them from me, YOU Who are the True, the Sovereign Joy drove them from me and took their place! … O Lord, my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation!
– St. Augustine –
December 1, 2012
Let me seek Thee in longing, let me long for Thee in seeking; let me find Thee in love, and love Thee in finding.
– Anselm of Canterbury –
November 22, 2012
If anyone would tell you the surest, shortest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make it a rule to yourself, to thank God for every thing that happens to you.
– William Law –
from A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
November 18, 2012
The canon-mind is the most honest, happy, holy, and healthy mind in the universe. It’s a mind controlled by the person of Jesus Christ, esteeming the things that He esteems, despising the things that He despises. It is a mind in tune with Heaven, discriminating between light and darkness with the deftness of God Himself. It is a mind radically loyal to the words of Scripture, unbending in opposition, unyielding to doubt and unwavering in its allegiance.
– Eric Ludy –
from The Bravehearted Gospel
November 2, 2012
Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.
– AW Tozer –