Joy Quotes - Page 6

In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. Of course, it's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose and focus your full attention on what's happening right this moment.

Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

The peace of the world concerns only body and time but the peace, the joy, that Christ gives enriches the soul for eternity

Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes.

Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.

In Unity there is strength; We can move mountains when we're united and enjoy life - Without unity we are victims. Stay united.

But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

Success is clarity of my intention....and reaching that intention while being true to myself and with joy.

I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.

In life, we will always encounter difficult people. Don't allow them to frustrate you or steal your joy.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.

When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.

Surely there can be no greater joy than that of saving souls.