Quotes about Joy

God didn't let Job suffer because he lacked love, but because he did love, in order to bring Job to the point of encountering God face to face, which is humanity's supreme happiness. Job's suffering hollowed out a big space in him so that God and joy could fill it.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

A life lived in love will never be dull.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things...I play with leaves, I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. :)

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Without that forgiveness, that peace, no heart is ever happy. There is always an inner struggle. Pain. Only when God has been invited in-to manage one's life, to direct one's thinking, to be in control-can one ever get away from all the conflicts inside. We have to stop struggling against His will before we can find real joy.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!