Marcus Garvey Quotes

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

God didn't create the universe so that talented people would be happy.

The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.

To God, our journey is JUST as important as our destination!

My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.

There are so many lies out there about what the good life is whether that's making as much money as you can or just being the best you can be. I just want to challenge those lies and look at what God says the good life is in His Word. He says that the good life is about believing in God and embracing everything that He has for us.

Mother Teresa once said, "Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile." ... The last thing many believers need is to go to another Bible study.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

The purpose of life is to glorify God in both good and hard times alike.

Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.

I don't think it's that hard [to lead a Christian life]. To me it's fun. We have joy and happiness.

Death is not big thing, what is important is God's service.

If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam

God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.

Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.

Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.