Quotes About Joy

Go and play. Run around. Build something. Break something. Climb a tree. Get dirty. Get in some trouble. Have some fun.

The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too?

Peter wore a grin from ear to ear. "You did great!

Abitha laughed loud and hard, realized it was more than this bawdy song, it was being able to let her hair down, to be her vulgar, sassy self in front of someone again, even if that someone might be the Devil himself.

Father smiled.

It is quite possible to be a good Christian without ceasing to be a happy, merry-hearted man.

To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of heaven, is as if the groveling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

That his prayer was nothing else but a sense of the presence of GOD, his soul being at that time insensible to everything but Divine love: and that when the appointed times of prayer were past, he found no difference, because he still continued with GOD, praising and blessing Him with all his might, so that he passed his life in continual joy; yet hoped that GOD would give him somewhat to suffer, when he should grow stronger.

Love sweetens pains; and when one loves GOD, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage. Do you so, I beseech you; comfort yourself with Him, who is the only Physician of all our maladies. He is the FATHER of the afflicted, always ready to help us. He loves us infinitely more than we imagine: love Him then, and seek not consolation elsewhere

It is shameful to abandon this divine communion to occupy our minds with trivial matters. We should feed and nourish our souls with high thoughts of God, which yield us great joy in devotion to Him.

our only business was to love and delight ourselves in GOD.

he still continued with GOD, praising and blessing Him with all his might, so that he passed his life in continual joy; yet hoped that GOD would give him somewhat to suffer, when he should grow stronger.

The world, the flesh, and the devil join forces and assault the soul so straitly and so untiringly that, without humble reliance on the ever-present aid of GOD, they drag the soul down in spite of all resistance. Thus to rely seems hard to nature, but grace makes it become easy, and brings with it joy.

True happiness comes from within, and is not dependent on external circumstances or material possessions.

The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, -- believe the aged friend -- Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses Forever in joy!

For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love-- How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

The deep hurt is the mirror image of the deep joy that still awaits you.

knowledge constrained by obedience to God and then fulfilled by the grace of God leads to meaning, sanctification, and eternal joy.