Joy Quotes - Page 165

We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations.

The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know God, the more we will truly love Him. We will learn to love Him equally in times of distress or in times of great joy.

What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results that you get and the success that you enjoy.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

There is no joy without gratitude.

It's so enjoyable to play a bad guy, you know.

I do a lot of to-dos and a lot of lists. I realized I had to make room for joy. So I added "to feel" items on my to-do list. That's something you can easily do.

I seem to be able to get along with anybody when I work because I really enjoy being there.

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

I enjoy collaborating with other people.

I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.

Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.

People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one.

The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.

I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

When you express your gratitude, you will bring joy to others lives.When others know joy, your life will be filled with happiness.

If there is a good thing about photography, it is that it can be easily enjoyed.

I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don't have to be there anymore.