John Donne Quotes

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means.

And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

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

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

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

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

Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?

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

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.

Eternity will be wonderful, but there is one thing heaven will not contain, and that is the call, the possibility, and the privilege of living a supernatural life here and now by faith, before we meet Jesus face to face.

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.

Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.

Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight.

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

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

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?