Quotes About Joy

This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.

Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.

Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.

My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

Maximize that which gives you joy: friends, hobbies, religion, etc

Religion without joy-it is no religion.

In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.

Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like.

Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.

Delight in the Lord and He will deliver you

Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would've worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would've then better lead them on to happiness.

Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.

I have a lot of respect for Ovechkin as a player. I like his enthusiasm. I know the kid has a zest for life and a joy for the game.

Respect yourself as well as others; make commitments, not excuses, and make every day a fun day.

I love it when people have pleasure working and when there is respect. That's what I love.