Quotes About Joy

we receive suffering when it comes as an opportunity for God to do something good in us and through us. We rejoice not in the pain but rather in what it can accomplish for the gospel so that something as costly as suffering is not wasted but used for God's glory, our joy, and others' good.

Hebrews 13:15–17, which says: Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

by making good decisions, we can bring ourselves closer to God. And moving closer to God means moving closer to a life of peace-and joy.

Think about today. Think about things that have happened. Especially about good things that have happened.

When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.

Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.

this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.

What could be more lovely than writing a book about something you love?

TO BE mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.

We ate simply, we were healthy, and we were uninterested in those things that should be called possessions not because they are possessed but because they possess. Those ten years were the happiest of my life save the first ten, the years in which I had neither position nor success, and no one took notice of me. Those were the years of the parent holding the child in his arms, lifting him high in the air, and pulling him close. As I held my own son, when he was a baby, God was right there.

They glanced over at Catherine, who was dancing with Billy, as only fathers and daughters can dance. No matter how old the daughter may be, the father is dancing, in joy unparalleled, with his child when she was little.

Alessandro learned yet again that the joy of escape is better than the joy of merely being free.

For someone who is happy, celebration is yet another channel or instrument through which happiness may course. For someone who is not, celebration is a tedious parody of existence that seems pointless and false.

Fear, delight, and being twenty were made for each other:

We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.

Though it would take a long time for him to understand the principle, it was that to be paid for one's joy is to steal.

Its funny, as soon as you lose faith, you have children, and life reawakens.

We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. —HOWARD THURMAN

we must turn water into air in order to live, which for us means turning our experience into something that can sustain us. It means turning pain into wonder, heartache into joy.

Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet & a book...absolute heaven.

If you write what you love everything else will follow.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.