Quotes About Joy

spent the evening letting Emily call the shots for what she called "a normal Christmas Eve" night—doing everything from drinking eggnog and eating snack food to watching, of course, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Finally they hung up Emily's Christmas stocking—a gift that Joy had tucked in one of her magical bins. Marcus hung it on the far edge of the fireplace to prevent the big crackling fire from scorching it.

Oh! Yes! Please!" she breathed. What followed was definitely the best day of Suki's life.

Ordinary folks, a muddle in the middle, just trying to get by with the least amount of pain and the greatest amount of joy. He could not argue with that.

When you mourn for too long, you start to forget how to feel joy.

Jesus didn't promise to change the circumstances around us, but He did promise great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.

learn for myself beyond any doubt how to turn every difficult situation into joy.

Satan can't do a thing to us unless he first gets God's permission. Remember God allowed Satan to test Job. The only time God gives Satan permission is when God sees the tremendous potential in the thing passing through us and coming out as joy, pure joy!

There are some people who would rather be right than happy, as though making a point was more fun than having a good time These are the people who will risk their lives to get the last laugh even when it isn't funny

I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. JOHN 10:10

Savor the moments of sheer happiness like a precious jewel—they come unexpectedly and with an intoxicating thrill. But there will also be moments, of course, when everything is black—perhaps someone you love dearly may hurt or disappoint you and everything may seem too difficult or utterly pointless. But remember, always, that everything passes and nothing stays the same…and every day brings a new beginning, and nothing, however awful, is completely without hope.

For me, my simple faith has so often brought light to a dark path, joy to a cold mountain and strength to a failing body. And who better to have as a guide than the person who made the path or the mountain in the first place!

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind, possessing and caressing me.

The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth.

Running fron the pain, they never know the fullness of love's pleasure.

They persist in our daily life and they undermine our capacity to live fully and joyously. They even prevent us from participating in organized collective struggle aimed at ending domination and transforming society.

They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.

I am afraid that they will grow up looking for intimacy without risk, for pleasure without significant emotional investment. They will be so fearful of the pain of disappointment that they will forgo the possibilities of love and joy." Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

Despair is not solid. Neither is joy. They alternate, and contain each other. There is no joy that is not also touched by sorrow, no grief that is not rendered sharper by the memory of bliss. If things move forward in one direction and not another, they do so by rolling there, passing through the same tight orbit, touching here an ecstasy, there another shattering loss.

It was as if food had been in monochrome and had suddenly appeared for the first time in colour.

Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy

You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.

I turned my face to the sky and laughed because the things you enjoy can't hurt you.

I woke myself up to make sure I wasn't dreaming, that Mike was really beside me. I kissed the pillow close up near his cheek because I didn't want to wake him. He opened one eye and grinned at me. "Don't waste 'em, kitten.

These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.