Randy Alcorn Quotes

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

The Lord gives his people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to him.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

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.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.

If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.

Joy is a sure sign of the presence of God in your life.

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it

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

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

I want to say one word to you and this word is “Joy”. Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women religious, young people, there is joy, there is always joy!

We have God's joy in our blood.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

I’ve often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it’s not where they’re gonna find their sense of completion. Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself, until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself. My soul is not contained within the limits of my body, my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

Each encounter with Jesus fills us with joy, with that deep joy which only God can give.

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.'