Thomas Campion Quotes

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.

We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.

Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.

There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood.

To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.

Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.

Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.

The experience of bliss can be the purest one of all and therefore the closest to God.

True joy comes only from God and He shares this joy with those who walk in fellowship with Him.

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!