Joy Quotes - Page 74

I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest — so sweetly and so surely.

At Arcueil ... I dined in distinguished company... There was a lot of very interesting discussion. It is these gatherings which are the joy of life.

The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.

Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.

heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy

Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefore, faith-filled suffering is essential in this world for the most intense, authentic worship. When we are most satisfied with God in suffering, he will be most glorified in us in worship. Our problem is not styles of music. Our problem is styles of life. When we embrace more affliction for the worth of Christ, there will be more fruit in the worship of Christ.

Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.

I enjoy the pleasure of my own company.

What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination.

This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

I really enjoy dressing up. I'm pretty much a girlie girl.

I think you're put here on earth to enjoy yourself. And I'm doing that.

God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.

Achieving conventional goals, such as profits and joy, with unconventional methods, such as investing energy instead of money.

That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.

Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.

Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].

Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.

Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal.

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.