The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put-off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Celebrate what you want to see more of. That's one way to fan into flame the gift of God.

In everything we do or experience we should have a happy heart and know that for Christ's sake we are in grace and that everything we do pleases God, even the fact that out of the needs of the body we eat and drink and do our work.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.

You're living through this crazy season, but you're so determined to bring glory to Jesus, to stand on the faith you have and sing Him a song in the night. That's what I call a worship leader.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

O Lord, I would bless and praise Thee. How hard I find it to praise Thee when I am not physically fit, and yet why should it—that means that I praise Thee when it is a pleasure to me physically. O Lord, that my soul were one continual praise to Thee.

Only when the greatest pleasure in your life is the knowledge that God is pleased by the way you are living can you handle pleasure properly.

In all these warnings against pleasure, truth is mixed with untruth. Insofar as they strengthen our responsibility, they are true; insofar as they undercut our joy, they are wrong.

Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,