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The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.

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.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

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.

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.