Quotes About Joy

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!… O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

For in Christ's coach saints sweetly singAs they to glory ride therein.

Let me sometimes dance With you, Or climb Or stand perchance In ecstasy, Fixed and free In a rhyme, As poets do.

[A]nd now I might As happy be as earth is beautiful...

The tree of knowledge is based on pleasure and pain; the ultimate reduction. From here we get joy and sorrow, the two primary emotions. Love is a form of joy and hate, a form of sorrow, but all spring from the tree of pleasure and pain, which all 'know.

Is your home life more sorrow than joy? This isn't the way it's supposed to be. It should be more joy than sorrow. If it is, you know. If it isn't, you also know. Remember this… God is always with you. This is the bedrock that allows the hopeless to remedy their situation.

If you want peace and not sorrow... if you want joy and not pain, say yes to God first. Then the problems of the world will fade away. You won't care about them. You won't worry about them. Because you'll have something far greater to take their place

What a burden it is to feel responsible for everything. The weight of the world drags you down until the pressure is so great, you no longer feel joyful. About anything.The world has become heavy. But you don't have to carry the world anymore.

Here is the wisdom of the free! They no longer waste time pursuing the world. Instead, they find their joy in God, always turning to Him for comfort. They know where there sustenance lies, and are no longer deceived.

It takes most a lifetime to discover this great truth... we find our greatest joy in God. After years of fighting the world, the tortured adult is ready to surrender. Ready to 'give up.' Ready to... come home.

We all want the good and not the bad. Yet it doesn't seem to be the case in life. Sorrow comes along with joy, pain, along with pleasure. Three things make this bearable; acceptance that life is exactly this, God, and each other.

When God is a greater cause of joy for you than the world, you have arrived.

A clock does not power itself. It has to be wound. A heart also does not power itself; it must encounter things that bring it joy in life in order for it to be full. This is why saying, 'I am love' is a error. It's 'I love God' which makes the difference.

'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.

Friendship is the wine of life.

Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy.

There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

The fruit of the Spirit is love." Mark the words,—love, not hatred; it is joy, not discontent and mourning; peace, not irritation, anxiety and manufactured trials. It is "long-suffering gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."…

A click of a smile donates the sweetness of love and beautifies the world.

A smile is beautiful; a beauty of one's character and heart since that inspires love.

Every weather is enjoyable if your feelings are delightful.