Charles Spurgeon Quotes

I cannot imagine a Christian who does not know how to smile. May we joyfully witness to our faith.

There are other kinds of joy found in other places in the world, but there is no place where you can find Christian joy except in Christ.

The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian.' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed 'that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.'

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.

For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained.

Happiness is about what happens to you; and, to an extent, it's dependent on your circumstances, your behaviors, and your attitudes. But the joy of Christ is much, much bigger. The joy of Christ is about relationship with a person. It's something you have access to, but it's also something you must choose. Christian joy shows up not only in the happy times but also in times of trial and discouragement.

I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.

Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.

If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

My favorite thing in the world was to make people sing - until I made people laugh. Then that became my favorite thing in the world.

You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never known - if you will give your life to him.

Be to the world a sign that while we as Christians do not have all the answers, we do know and care about the questions.

When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.

If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.

The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.

We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.

The proclamation and witness of the Gospel are the first service that Christians can offer every person and the whole human race, as they are called to communicate to all the love of God, who manifested himself fully in the only Redeemer of the world, Jesus Christ.

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

May the Santo Niño continue to bless the Philippines and may he sustain the Christians of this great nation in their vocation to be witnesses and missionaries of the joy of the Gospel, in Asia and in the whole world.

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.