Joy Quotes - Page 63

If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.

He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God.

Patience is the key to joy.

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

Every day take a few minutes and focus on SEEING yourself in joy. FEEL yourself in joy. IMAGINE only joy ahead in your life and see yourself basking in it You can't be in joy if you have money worries, or health worries, or relationship problems with friends or family. So deposit some joy in the bank of the Universe as often as you can. There isn't an investment that is more worthwhile.

What a joy it is that the road ahead is an uphill climb. For where it leads is all the way to the top.

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".

The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included. It is the expression of happiness, of being in harmony with ourselves, that which can only come from being in harmony with God and with his creation. It belongs to the nature of joy to be radiant; it must communicate itself. The missionary spirit of the Church is none other than the impulse to communicate the joy which has been given.

There’s danger in thinking joy is a matter of location. If we can’t find joy where we are, we probably won’t find it anywhere.

Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear.

No matter how you look, we all hurt the same, cry the same, and feel joy the same.

If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.

Keep puffing on the bubble until it breaks its confining walls and becomes the sea of joy.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Freedom is the world of joy.

We are at Jesus' disposal. If he wants you to be sick in bed, if he wants you to proclaim His work in the street, if he wants you to clean the toilets all day, that's all right, everything is all right. We must say, "I belong to you. You can do whatever you like." And this ..is our strength, and this is the joy of the Lord.

The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.

The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.

When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."