Psalm 36:8 (NIV) They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.
Psalm 73:25-26 (NIV) Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. 26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
John 17:13 (NIV) 13 "I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them."
God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
Edythe Draper, Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World, (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1992), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, 300.
