52. HAPPINESS & JOY
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Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord (Ps.144:15).
1. God created you to enjoy the life He's given you, and to love and enjoy Him forever, and to try to help others to do the same!
2. The kind of people God wants are people that love Him and are happy in Him and love to sing and love and play and dance for the Lord and shout His praises and His salvation from the housetops!
3. Joy that isn't shared dies young.
4. I'm happy if you're happy, 'cuz that makes me happy too!
5. They say if you wanna be happy for two hours get drunk! If you wanna be happy for two weeks get married! But if you wanna be happy forever, get saved!
6. God wants you to live for Him as long as possible and as happy as possible, a good happy sample of the joy of the Lord, before some day you have to die for Him.
7. Our kind of love has got something to offer! It's happy, it's lively, it's dynamic, it's positive, it's powerful! It's not slow and sad and draggy and dreary drudgery.
8. We communicate joy to other people through our shining, happy, smiling faces and blithe spirits and bright glow of our personalities because of the Spirit of the Lord, because He's our personality and that's what wins the World to us!
9. If I never get any further than this, I've had a great time getting this far!
10. God made all the most important essential work in the World enjoyable and delightful and satisfying--eating, loving, sleeping and even our work for Him is a pleasure!
11. The Lord made life for us to enjoy, and I like to enjoy it to the fullest!
12. We're the most satisfied, happiest customers in the world, because we've all partaken of the best possible product!--Jesus!
13. You'll never appreciate Joy until you've known Sorrow!
14. You too can joy with others share
And heal the hearts to you laid bare
If you'll but pour the oil of Love
He'll give you from His Heart above.
15. The time to be happy is now,
And the place to be happy is here,
And the way to be happy is to make others happy
And we'll have a little Heaven right here!
16. Be cheerful!--Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
17. Our religion, work and play make us happy. Very little makes us unhappy, except the fact that some other people are not happy.
18. The only way on Earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.
19. A sad world cannot be sweetened by sour religion.
20. Enjoy yourself!--It's later than you think!
21. When I gave up trying to be perfect I finally became happy.
22. Here are five keys to fulfillment: Obey our great God, dream great dreams, plan great plans, pray great prayers, claim great victories.
23. When a bit of sunshine hits you,
After passing of the rain
When a fit of laughter gets you,
And your spine is strong again,
Don't forget to up and fling it
At a soul that's feelin' blue,
For the minute that you sling it,
It's a boomerang to you!
24. Happiness is thinking about others, not yourself!
25. We have a religion full of love and joy and happiness!
26. I'd rather be happy in Jesus
Than sane as the Devil and bad.
If it's madness of spirit that frees us,
I'd rather be mad and be glad!
27. Oh give me a world of madness
If madness is to be glad!
I'd rather be happy in madness
Than only be sane and sad.
28. Every new day is the happiest day of my life! Every day with Jesus is better than the day before!
29. In the Spirit, in the Spirit
All my life is like a song,
In the Spirit, in the Spirit
I am happy all day long.
30. Find someone else to make happy, and then happiness will find you.
31. Priorities: "Jesus, and Others, then You."--Spells JOY!
32. "How happy and content art thou in the bosom of thy father."
33. It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.
34. The things we like are fun
And far from ever being done!
35. If I please the Lord, the Lord lets me do as I please!
36. No man can be happy unless he feels his life is in some way important.
37. Life is hard by the yard;
By the inch life's a cinch!
38. Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling.
39. Life lived just to satisfy yourself never satisfies anybody.
40. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
41. Though you travel the World over to find the beautiful, you must carry it with you or you'll find it not.
42. Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like a violin.
43. Content lodges oftener in cottages than in palaces.
44. The best cure for grief is action.
45. Happiness is a rainbow in your heart.
46. The hearts that share one Love, one Life, will always know true joy.
47. Take a cup of kindness, mix it well with love.
Add a lot of patience and faith in God above.
Sprinkle very generously with joy and thanks and cheer,
And you'll have lots of "angel food"
To feast on all the year.
48. The 10 basic things you need in order to be happy are: Love and understanding; change; recognition; appreciation; challenge; fulfillment or satisfaction; to feel accepted or belong; fellowship or companionship; a goal; and to be helpful to others. All of these we have in the Family.
49. How can you be poor when you're rich in happiness and rich in love!
50. To feel rich, count the things that you have that money can't buy.
51. The ultimate wealth is happiness!
52. This is one story that hasn't got any end, because it's eternal, forever! You can't say "and that's the happy ending" because that's just the happy beginning! But you can say, "And they lived happily ever after!"
53. The Lord overrules your human desire and fulfills your heart's desire!
54. Our Garden of Eden is even better than the first one, because we've got more Eves, more Adams and more children too!
55. Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.
56. Friendship doubles your joys and divides your grief.
57. The longer I serve Him, the sweeter He grows.
The more that I love Him, more love He bestows.
Each day is like Heaven, my heart overflows.
The longer I serve Him, the sweeter He grows.
58. Is your life bulging with excitement, virility and fruitfulness?!--Or is it dead, dull, sterile, frigid and barren, like most churches!
59. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
60. We've got more to be happy about than anybody else in the world! We have the happy love of Jesus and His Happy Holy Spirit!
61. Every person lives in one of two "tents"--either content or discontent.
62. There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
63. God is the only One Who can give meaning to the Universe, purpose to the planets, love to your heart, peace to your mind, health to your body, rest to your spirit, happiness to your life and joy to your soul!
64. God's a pretty smart Father, and He knows that the more He loves you and the happier you are, the more you'll love Him and the more obedient you'll be out of pure love!
65. Joy is the flag which flies from the castle of the heart when the King is in residence there.
66. If you put Him first, love and worship Him above all and thank Him for all these things He's given you, and you enjoy them, find great pleasure and pleasantness in them , but not to the point that they come first before the Lord or exclude God and His love and worship, then it is not a sin to enjoy life and sex and food and sensual pleasures which God has created for your senses to enjoy.
67. In some religions the sadder you are, the more religious you are. But we consider that you're not very spiritual unless you're happy, victorious and joyful.
(See also No.159, 194, 250, 584, 686, 724, 731, 743, 802, 958, 1035, 1259, 1393, 1456.)
68. DEU.12:18b And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
69. 2CH.9:7 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
70. NEH.8:10b For the joy of the Lord is your strength.
71. NEH.12:43b God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
72. JOB.41:22 Sorrow is turned into joy before Him.
73. PSA.5:11 But let all those that put their trust in Thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because Thou defendest them: let them also that love Thy Name be joyful in Thee.
74. PSA.16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
75. PSA.19:8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
76. PSA.21:1 The king shall joy in Thy strength, O Lord; and in Thy Salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
77. PSA.32:11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
78. PSA.65:13b They shout for joy, they also sing.
79. PSA.70:4 Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee: and let such as love Thy Salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
80. PSA.89:15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of Thy countenance.
81. PSA.100:1,2 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before His presence with singing.
82. PSA.105:43 And He brought forth His people with joy, and His chosen with gladness.
83. PSA.119:111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
84. PSA.119:162 I rejoice at Thy Word, as one that findeth great spoil.
85. PSA.128:2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
86. PSA.144:15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
87. PSA.146:5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God.
88. ISA.12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of Salvation.
89. ISA.35:10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
90. ISA.55:12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
91. ISA.61:10a I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God.
92. ISA.65:18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
93. HAB.3:18 Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my Salvation.
94. LUK.1:46,47 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
95. LUK.2:10,11 And the angel said unto them, Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
96. LUK.10:20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in Heaven.
97. JOH.15:10,11 If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father's commandments, and abide in His love. These things have I spoken unto you, that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
98. JOH.16:22 And ye now therefore have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
99. ACT.13:52 And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.
100. ROM.14:17 For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
101. ROM.15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
102. 2CO.6:10a As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing.
103. PHI.4:4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
104. PHI.4:11,12 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
105. 1TH.2:19,20 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? For ye are our glory and joy.
106. 1TI.6:6-8 Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this World, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
107. HEB.13:5 Be content with such things as ye have: for He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
108. 1PE.1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in Whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.
109. 1JO.1:4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
(See also PSA.144:12-15.)
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