Happiness is not the end of life; character is.

Happiness is the the practice of the virtues.

God didn't save you to make you happy. That's a by-product. He saved you to make you holy. You were predestinated to be conformed to the image of God's Son.

Money promises happiness, and we serve it by believing the promise and walking by that faith.

The happy man is he that knows the world and cares not for it.

Discontent is a sin that is its own punishment and makes men torment themselves; it makes the spirit sad, the body sick, and all the enjoyments sour; it is the heaviness of the heart and the rottenness of the bones. It is a sin that is its own parent. It arises not from the condition, but from the mind. As we find Paul contented in a prison, so Ahab discontent in a palace. Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible (McLean, Mac Donald Publishing Company) 694

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

The strength and happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Why should my heart be fixed where my home is not? Heaven is my home; God in Christ is all my happiness: and where my treasure is, there my heart should be.

Happiness consists in the attainment of our desires, and in our having only right desires.

Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. the Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and everyone of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.

God threatens terrible things if we will not be happy.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Simplicity is the only thing that can sufficiently reorient our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.