Quotes about Joy

In principle this implies something else, something harder to grasp, namely, that his whole suffering—a suffering that goes to the utter limits—follows from and actually expresses his eternal, triune joy.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

Do you not know this, that from time immemorial, Since man was first set on earth, The joy of the wicked has been brief?… Though evil is sweet to his taste, His food in his bowels turns to venom within him.

More than any other human problem, loneliness, the absence of meaningful human connection, drains the joy and the sense of purpose from our lives.

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

Those who live with faith have a much better road, a much happier life.

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.