Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.
The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.
Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God.
Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying 'yes' to God. In him we find joy.
Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.
Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile.
When we truly understand what it means to love as Jesus Christ loves us, the confusion clears and our priorities align. Our walk as disciples of Christ becomes more joyful. Our lives take on new meaning. Our relationship with our Heavenly Father becomes more profound. Obedience becomes a joy rather than a burden.
The Lord gives his people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to him.
To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.
Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.
Obey Him with glad reckless joy.
It is my mission as a pilgrim to act as a messenger expressing spiritual truths. It is a task which I accept joyfully, and I desire nothing in return, neither praise or glory, nor the glitter of silver and gold. I simply rejoice to be able to follow the whisperings of a Higher Will.
Philippians 1:21 is very special to me because it helps to keep my life centered.
We don't honor just to get a reward; we honor because it is the heart of God, and it is our delight.
Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.
Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.
I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else
