Quotes About Joy

Joy is what God gives, not what we work up. Laughter is the delight that things are working together for good to those who love God, not the giggles that betray the nervousness of a precarious defense system.

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian. G. K. CHESTERTON

Joy is the verified, repeated experience of those involved in what God is doing. It is as real as a date in history, as solid as a stratum of rock in Palestine. Joy is nurtured by living in such a history, building on such a foundation.

All suffering, all pain, all emptiness, all disappointment is seed: sow it in God and he will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.

This joy is not dependent on our good luck in escaping hardship. It is not dependent on our good health and avoidance of pain. Christian joy is actual in the midst of pain, suffering, loneliness and misfortune.

A Christian," wrote Augustine, "should be an alleluia from head to foot.

Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?

We will not be saved by our money, our weapons, or our technological virtuosity; we might be rescued by the joyful and unprofitable pursuits of love, beauty, and contemplation

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.

Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon?

Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire in order to experience life in Christ; it is what comes to us when we are walking in the way of faith and obedience.

Joy might be God- in the marrow of our bones.

When Lucky spilled his seed inside her, Molly knew with a certainty that they had just made a new life together.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Where there is no wine there is no love.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.

Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.

Happy! That will-o'-the-wisp.