Grace, Faith & Life

‎16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.