James Russell Lowell Quotes

You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.

Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.

All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.

Enjoyment of life is not based on enjoyable circumstances. It is an attitude of the heart, a decision to enjoy everything because everything - even little, seemingly insignificant things - have a part in the overall "big picture" of life.

As our heart soars, we fly with it! Let love take you places!

All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.

My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.

Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong—inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present.

God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy.

True giving is a thoroughly joyous thing to do. We experience happiness when we form the intention to give, in the actual act of giving, and in the recollection of the fact that we have given. Generosity is a celebration. When we give something to someone we feel connected to them, and our commitment to the path of peace and awareness deepens.

Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my heart and shine for Your glory. This is what I live for. Amen, amen.

A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

Have a grateful heart to be happy.

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.

There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

I'm grateful to myself and those closest to me me for having given me that non-material base that means I'm a happy man, one who doesn't have to compete or engineer projects he doesn't have his heart in.

The greatest thing that will please God is that you maintain an attitude of unshakable joy.

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

I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.

Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.

Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.