Quotes about Joy
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
— William James
This day, I saw clearly that I should never be happy, yea, that God Himself could not make me happy, unless I could be in a capacity to 'please and glorify Him forever.' Take away this and admit me into all the fine heavens that can be conceived of by men or angels, and I should still be miserable forever.
— David Brainerd
We give with joy in our hearts. We give out of our humble circumstances. We give out of our wealth.
— David Green
Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.
— Leonard Ravenhill
True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.
— George Whitefield
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.
— Ann Voskamp
Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God's will, whatever comes.
— Amy Carmichael
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
— Jurgen Moltmann
Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.
— John Calvin
A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.
— Ignatius of Loyola