Quotes about Joy

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy.

My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

Only when we are thus ''dead to the world and all its toys, its idle pomp and fading joys'' can we feel the freedom that Paul knew.

Scholar George Myerson has recently written a study of happiness. After 250 pages tracking moments of joy throughout history, he concludes that humans are happiest hanging with friends, gathered around tables with good food and conversation and laughter. If you can get that table out of doors, so the sun can kiss the skin—if as you dine together you can also provide help for others—then, according to Myerson, you've won the lottery of life.[36]

To please God, to be pleasing to God, is to "walk with Light," to walk with God in joy, praise, holiness, and humility as image-bearers of the Light.

Life is the gift that keeps on giving. Appreciate that blessing for what it is.