If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The world assumes that we are very happy with high mansions, fine carriages, servants and attendants, huge investments, and concubines. But he who is without the honor and strength of the soul can be anything but happy.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.
Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.
God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don't really know biblically what I'm to ask Him for.
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.
To be happy is, I guess, the most important thing in life.
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