Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.
– AB Simpson –
Better be one day with God than a thousand years without him.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Nothing gives the believer as much joy as fellowship with Christ.
– Charles Spurgeon –
He came to deliver us from our sinful dispositions, and create in us pure hearts, and when we have Him with us it will not be hard for us. Then the service of Christ will be delightful.
– Dwight L. Moody –
My goal is God Himself. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but Himself.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
There will be three effects of nearness to Jesus—humility, happiness, and holiness. May God give them to you, Christian!
– Charles Spurgeon –
Oh! One hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.
– David Brainerd –
When the meeting is over and there is no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have the same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God?
– Keith Green –
The pleasures of religion will abide; they wither not in winter, nor tarnish with time, nor doth age wrinkle their beauty; frosts nip them not, nor do storms blast them; they continue through the greatest opposition of events, and despise that time and change, which happens to all things under the sun’ (Ecl 9:1). Believers, when they are sorrowful, they are but as sorrowful, for they are “always rejoicing” (2 Cor 6:10) and “Thanks be to God who always causes us to triumph” (2 Cor 2:14).
– Matthew Henry –
from The Pleasantness of a Religious Life, 1714