Quotes About Joy

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When I ride a horse, it just makes my blood wiggle! [Cole, age 5]

For many young girls, having a horse of their own ranks high on the scale of importance, right up there with breathing.

Unexpectedly, she took several trotting steps and then threw in a couple of feeble attempts at bucking! She felt good enough to try and play! ... Instead of slowing down, she broke into a very awkward canter, punctuated by all sorts of goofy attempts to throw her heels up. I couldn't help but laugh out loud at her faltering display of joyful rejuvenation.

When we dwell on God's provision, His promises, His presence, authentic joy is the natural overflow, which inspires us to praise and worship Him through our hardships. In so doing, we can experience His peace through any circumstance.

spring time is for lovers because...it's so fresh and new!

Why should you try to never have laughter again? Did you die? No, you are alive. So be alive! Laugh if you want to, cry if you must, let yourself feel.

Mack to Abigail (pg. 257) "Psalm 126:5 says, 'They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.' Ma said when she got overwhelmed and needed to have a cry, she could be sure joy would follow the tears. That the tears watered seeds of joy. I've had some of those tears myself.

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But what was faith if not a belief that God would do what He promised? She scanned the words again: "Beauty for ashes . . . Joy for mourning . . . Praise for the spirit of heaviness . . ." She underlined the final words with a trembling finger: "That he might be glorified.

Thad kept his voice light, even though his heart had suddenly decided to set up a fierce boom-boom inside his chest. "Are you hoping to have a big family of your own someday?" "Of course! Big and boisterous." She laughed, the sound like creek water tripping over rocks. "I can't imagine family being any other way.

As a child, I saw the potential of our world and it made me smile.

This is to remind me of the best day of my life." She looks down at me. For a wonder, she smiles back. "When was that?" she asks. "Tomorrow," I say.

Zachary smiles, and I wonder if he's felling different. Because standing out here waist deep in Gossimer Lake, next to my best friend, I'm feeling different-light and good and maybe even holy.

Mr. Williams, how do explain a day like today? A day filled with lots of sad and happy, too. Tonight I asked Aunt Patty Cake that very question. She said, 'Baby, that's called life' " -Tate P. Ellerbee

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

She is beautiful, isn't she? (Lochlan) Like the first day of spring after a long, harsh winter. (Sin)

A jovial man can be happy with anyone, but when a sad one laughs, he treasures that one who brings him the sunshine. (Cat)

Both life and work were a great deal more rewarding when you didn't take them seriously.

Both life and work were a great more reewarding when you didn't take them quite so seriously

You're my one good thing now.

I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.

We do not take humor seriously enough.