“God is the author of all true happiness” by Thomas Brooks

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“Nothing can make that man truly miserable that has God for His portion, nor nothing can make that man truly happy that lacks God for His portion.

God is the author of all true happiness.

He is the donor of all true happiness, He is the maintainer of all true happiness, and He is the centre of all true happiness and blessedness.

And, therefore, he that has Him for His God, for His portion, is the only happy man in the world.”

–Thomas Brooks, “A Matchless Portion,” in The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 2, ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1866/1980), 2: 25. Brooks is preaching from Lamentations 3:24.

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Deborah Siler

May 28, 2024

I was excited to see the title of your post because my book club is discussing a book called “Happiness Falls”. In the book a character assigns math to his theory of Happiness quotients. I’m sure someone in the club ( no christians in the group), What is happiness? Your post says it comes from Brooks’ sermon on Lamentations 2:21. I don’t get it. I must admit I do not know those scriptures well enough to guess. Club meets this Wednesday night. Pray the club sees a glimmer of happiness in God .

PS Congrats on the graduation

Deborah Siler

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1. tollelege
  
  May 29, 2024
  
  LOL. I made a mistake. It’s Lamentations 3:24. What an epic fail!
  
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