Quotes About Joy

et déjà je ne souhaitais plus rien au-delà de son sourire, et que de marcher avec elle, ainsi, dans un tiède chemin bordé de fleurs, en lui donnant la main.

?i totuÈ™i, de multe ori, fiind cât pe-aici s? culeg o bucurie, i-am întors brusc spatele, aÈ™a cum ar fi putut face un ascet. Nu era vorba deloc de renunÈ›are, ci de o aÈ™teptare, atât de des?vârÈ™it?, a ceea ce putea fi acea bucurie, de o anticipare atât de împlinit?, încât realizarea nu m? mai putea înv??a nimic.

Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.

joy is out there waiting for us, but it always wants to find the bed empty

Tityrus smiled.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

This happiness rendered absurd men's desire to dominate, to kill, to possess, thought Volsky. For neither Mila nor he possessed anything. Their joy came from the things one does not possess, from what other people had abandoned or scorned. But, above all, this sunset, this scent of warm bark, these clouds above the young trees in the graveyard, these belonged to everybody!

They did not speak, surprised to see how simple, almost poor, happiness could be, yes, materially poor and yet so abundant.

Are you in pain?' I asked, because I know that everything in the world that matters shows up as some kind of pain. Or pang. Joy included.

The world believes, "Success makes you happy." The truth is; happiness makes you successful. The Happier You Get …

The reality is that a heart desire for prayer is lacking. Many do not know how to spend half an hour with God! It is not that they absolutely do not pray; they may pray every day—but they have no joy in prayer. Joy is the sign that God is everything to you.

True happiness is always self-forgetful: it loses itself in the object of its joy. As the joy of the Holy Ghost fills us, and we rejoice in God the Holy One, through our Lord Jesus Christ. [. . .] Love and joy ever keep company. Love, denying and forgetting itself for the brethren and the lost, living in them, finds the joy of God. 'The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Ghost.

And there they were, empty, ignorant, helpless, glad, and joyful, but deeply humbled.

and let the infinite Fatherliness of God's Heart be my joy and strength for a life of prayer and of worship. Amen.

how unspeakable the blessings are that flow from it. As

Let Thy wonderful revelation of a Father's tenderness free all young Christians from every thought of secret prayer as a duty or a burden, and lead them to regard it as the highest privilege of their life, a joy and a blessing.

Him alone brings the joy unspeakable and full of glory. Oh, let each of us who has begun to taste the

The complaints of many Christians as to lack of joy and strength, as to failure and want of growth, are simply owing to this—the place God gave Holiness in His call they have not given it in their response. God and they have never yet come to an agreement on this.

I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love to others.

God's love, and I begin to long for God's love in a very different sense from which I have sought it so selfishly—as a comfort, a joy, a happiness, and a pleasure to myself. I will not learn it until I realize that "God is love," and to claim and receive it as an

Christians should yield themselves wholly to the glorious God who has redeemed them, to delight in serving Him in whose fellowship heaven has already begun. To

The more I understand and contemplate Jesus' surrender of Himself for me, the more do I give myself again to Him. The surrender is a mutual one: the love comes from both sides. His giving of Himself makes such an impression on my heart, that my heart with the self-same love and joy becomes entirely His.

To be alone in secret with the Father: this be your highest joy. To be assured that the Father will openly reward the secret prayer, so that it cannot remain unblessed:

joy in prayer is sign of communion with God that shows that God is everything to them.