“There is great danger of not, in happiness, finding our delight in the Lord.”
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Three: If I Had a Thousand Lives. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 131).
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Missionary in China 1832–1905Related quotes
“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 197.
“I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.”
Act II, scene vii
The Old Bachelor (1693)
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 296).
Part III, Chapter VI
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1925/jul/29/navy-supplementary-estimate-1925-26#column_479 in the House of Commons (29 July 1925)
Later life
“Theologian: But what is to love?
Philosopher: To be delighted by the happiness of another.”
Theologus: Amare autem?
Philosophus: Felicitate alterius delectari.
Confessio philosophi (1673)
The Way to Love (1995)
Context: If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future. So they are spared the guilt and anxiety that so torment human beings and they are full of the sheer joy of living, taking delight not so much in persons or things as in life itself. As long as your happiness is caused or sustained by something or someone outside of you, you are still in the land of the dead. The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.