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Quotes About Joy

Whatever you experience outwardly, take it within yourself and say 'I'm happy because I'm happy. I'm happy because God is in my heart.'
~ Goswami Kriyananda
Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.
~ Henri Nouwen
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
~ Jim Elliot
Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, In whom his world rejoices.
~ Johann Cruger
Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
~ Judah Smith
Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.
~ Martin Luther
The commands of God are given, not to rob me of joy, but lead me into the fullness of joy.
~ Matt Chandler
Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.
~ Mother Teresa
Let us ask the Lord for this grace: that our hearts become free and filled with light, so that we can rejoice as children of God.
~ Pope Francis
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.
~ Miriam Toews, Swing Low
Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
God is good and I am always loved.
~ Ann Voskamp
When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God really. You're doing it for yourself, because that's what makes God happy. Amen?
~ Victoria Osteen
We should want to evangelize because of the joy that God puts in our hearts. Ultimately, that's the best reason for sharing our faith.
~ Mark Dever
God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.
~ Martin Luther
Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.
~ Oswald Chambers
You know what, I'm probably one of the most blessed people there's ever been, and I thank God for it.
~ Smokey Robinson
Joy is God in the marrow of our bones.
~ Eugenia Price
Where the unveiled glories of the Deity shall beat full upon us, and we for ever sun ourseves in the smiles of God.
~ Ezekiel Hopkins
... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.
~ Julian of Norwich
God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right nest to me like a real best friend, watching, and smiling, and wishing he had a mouth.
~ Augusten Burroughs