Quotes About Joy

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You were the one who brightened up the dull days, Gram, Hadleigh thought now. You, with your love and your laughter and with that magical smile of yours.

How much slower the work went when the joy of it was gone.

The lush greenness of the pastures infused Shiloh. Overhead, she saw a red-tailed hawk flying in higher and higher circles in the sky. There were bluebirds everywhere, many of them sitting on fence posts. When they took off, that flash of brilliant blue always made her gasp with delight; it was almost an unearthly gorgeous color.

An actual misfortune is almost always less painful to him than his fear of it, just as, of course, his actual experience of joys is almost always less stirring than his hopes and anticipations of them.

If you are not dancing, your dead.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt

And if I'd once fallen hard for my husband, I fell even harder for my child. It was as if my entire life had been building to this one moment, my finest work, my greatest accomplishment, this tiny bundle of precious life.

You did not kill my daughter, Annabelle. You were her best friend. You brought her immeasurable joy. Truth is, none of us control how much time we have here on earth. We can only control the life we lead while we have it. Dori led a loving, gracious, joyful existence. I think of that every morning when I wake up, and I think of it every night before I go to bed. My daughter had seven years of love.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.

Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.

May the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best within us be ours as we keep our love and our marriages, our society and our souls, as pure as they were meant to be.

A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.

You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.

Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God.