Quotes about Joy
Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.
- Jonah Hill
In reality, I never want to grow up.
- Michael Jordan
Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.
- John Lennon
You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.
- Paulo Coelho
I believe that when we sing, we worship twice. We express our thoughts into words, and our words into song.
- Bo Sanchez
What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow's pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.
- Jim Elliot
Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
- Martin Luther
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
- Pope John Paul II
In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.
- Jan Hus
Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
- Shane Claiborne
So live real good, and get beat up real bad. Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more. That's how this thing seems to work.
- Shane Claiborne