Quotes About Joy

If we were perfect—if there were no remaining corruption in our hearts—there would be no fight. There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won't fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.

The fight for joy in Christ is not a fight to soften the cushion of Western comforts. It is a fight for strength to live a life of self-sacrificing love.

God created the world to exhibit the fullness of His glory in the God-centered joy of His people.

God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about him. Indeed

But not only does the pursuit of joy in God give strength to endure; it is the key to breaking the power of sin on our way to heaven.

Sometimes people ask: should we pursue obedience to God or joy in God? Edwards would answer: The question involves a category confusion. It's like asking: should I pursue fruit or apples? Obedience is doing what we are told. And we are told to delight ourselves in the Lord. Therefore pursuing joy in God is obedience. In

The best news in the world is that there is no conflict between your greatest possible happiness and God's perfect holiness. Being satisfied with all that God is for you in Jesus magnifies him as the greatest treasure and brings you more joy---eternal, infinite joy---than any other delight ever could.

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

Let's not overlook that eating the Lord's Supper with God's people is a kind of preaching that is also meant to feed the joy of Christ's people. "For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes" (1 Cor. 11:26). The death and resurrection of Christ are being

Worship is nothing less than obedience to the command of God: "Delight yourself in the Lord"!

Glorifying God and enjoying Him were one end in their minds, not two.

He once said that "there are but two lessons for Christians to learn: the one is, to enjoy God in everything; the other is, to enjoy everything in God.

El Resumen de la Navidad

Porque nada glorifica más a Dios, que el que mantengamos nuestra estabilidad y nuestro gozo cuando lo perdemos todo menos a Él. Ese día nos llegará a todos y cada uno de nosotros, y haríamos bien en prepararnos, y ayudar a prepararse a las personas que amamos.

No quiere decir que no debemos buscar el gozo de edificar a otros, sino que debemos dejar que este gozo nos libere de las ataduras a los placeres personales que nos hacen indiferentes al bien de los demás.

Nothing shows the direction of the deep winds of the soul like the demand for radical, sin-destroying, Christ-exalting joy in God.

We will not find a frustrated, gloomy, irritable Father who wants to be left alone, but a Father whose heart is so full of joy that it spills over unto all those (Christian Hedonists) who are thirty.

Observe, It is our duty and privilege to rejoice in God, and to rejoice in him always; at all times, in all conditions; even when we suffer for him, or are afflicted by him. We must not think the worse of him or of his ways for the hardships we meet with in his service. There is enough in God to furnish us with matter of joy in the worst circumstance on earth. . . . Joy in God is a duty of great consequence in the Christian life; and Christians need to be again and again called to it

It is radically humbling to confess that the source of all our joy resides outside ourselves.

No siempre tuve en claro que la búsqueda de la gloria de Dios sería prácticamente lo mismo que la búsqueda de mi propio gozo. Ahora veo que millones de personas desperdician sus vidas porque creen que estos caminos son dos senderos diferentes y no el mismo.

But we are supposed to have our roots planted somewhere other than circumstance. The roots of our lives are supposed to be drawing up the nutriments of joy from a source that cannot be depleted—the river of God and his Word. The one who delights in the Lord is "like a tree planted by streams of water.

In other words, in all my rejoicing over all the good things that God has made, God himself is the heart of my joy, the gladness of my joy. In all my rejoicing in everything, there is a central rejoicing in God. Every joy that does not have God as its central gladness is a hollow joy and in the end will burst like a bubble. This is what led Augustine to pray, "He loves thee too little who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for thy sake."2

Therefore, Christ crucified is the foundation of all honest and everlast- ing joy. No self-deception is necessary to enjoy it. Indeed all deception must cease in order to enjoy it to the full.

Don't dwell on your corruption to the degree that it keeps you from joy, freedom, and love.