Quotes about Joy

Learn a lot. Laugh a lot. Love a lot. Live a lot.

If those who seek happiness would stop one little minute and think, they would see that the delights they already experience are as countless as the grasses at their feet, or the dewdrops sparkling upon the morning flowers.

Isn't God the one who urges us to Make a joyful noise unto the Lord? Why do we always think that means singing? Seems to me the most obvious joyful sound on earth is laughter... I've seen folks quote verses like Rejoice in the Lord always while their faces look like they just buried a rich uncle who willed everything to his pregnant guinea pig. Something is missing.

For they are rebellious against You. But let all who take refuge in You be glad, Let them ever sing for joy; And may You shelter them, That those who love Your name may exult in You. For it is You who blesses the righteous man, O LORD, You surround him with favor as with a shield. (Psalm 5)

What happened when these people sang was more than just humans hitting notes. The music seemed to come from somewhere deep inside and when their voices united, it felt like goosebumps on the soul. Something like joy bubbled up from inside her and leaked through her eyes.

There is no gift to the world like a man doing what he enjoys.

All her questions, all the fatigue and nausea and swelling and pain, vanished the moment she held her son.

One choice changes the construction of a life. You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.