HAPPINESS
Seek not happiness first; seek Christ first, and happiness shall come after. 196.255
Nothing beneath the skies, and nothing above the skies, can make any man happy
apart from God, search as you will. Apart from God you may make a hell, but you
cannot make a heaven, do what you please. 1305.419
Unless you can tell why you are happy you will not long be happy. 1719.254
People who are very happy, especially those who are very happy in the Lord, are not
apt either to give offence or to take offence. 2405.133
Be happy. If the present be dreary, it will soon be over. Oh, but a little while, and we
shall be transferred from these seats below to the thrones above! We shall go from
the place of aching brows to the place where they all wear crowns, from the place of
weary hands to where they bear the palm branch of victory, from the place of mistake
and error and sin, and consequent grief, to the place where they are without fault
before the throne of God, for they have washed their robes, and made them white in
the blood of the Lamb. 2405.142