Joy Quotes

In a sense, we are better prepared to praise God than the angels are, for angels have never known the joy of redemption.

The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment.

This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe.

There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment.

The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.

Count your blessings. A grateful heart attracts more joy, love and prosperity.

Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.

My deepest gratitude to the Creator for His gift to me...the joy I receive in creating my music.

Joy is strength- Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy.

Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Joy comes from places you least expect it. Its usually the simple things, like watching my son play basketball or going through Central Park when the blossoms are blooming.

I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.

Not by appointment do we meet Delight And Joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner in the streets of life, They, on a sudden, clasp us with a smile.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy.

Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.

People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want to suffer, they won't be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by.

Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.

For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

.....joy runs deeper than despair.

There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet.

Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people.

There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You're alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart.

What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.

Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.

If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy.

The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.

I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.

Disobedience is my joy!

One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.

Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.

In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.