Quotes about Joy

Find a place where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Laughter is God's blessing.

As terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.

As I watched them embrace, there on the front lawn, my heart was rocked by waves of unbridled joy. It occurred to me that up until this moment I'd only ever experienced the bridled kind. Having the reins slipped off my heart after a lifetime of wearing them was a bit overwhelming - in the best possible way

I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.

I realized, as painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.

ROMANS 8:28, NKJV One of the most interesting and remarkable things Christians learn is that laughter does not exclude weeping. Christian joy is not an escape from sorrow. Pain and hardship still come, but they are unable to drive out the happiness of the redeemed.... Joy is what God gives, not what we work up. Laughter is the delight that things are working together for good to those who love God, an overflow of spirits that comes from feeling good not about yourself but about God.

Where relationships are warm and expectancies fresh, we are already beginning to enjoy the life together that will be completed in our life everlasting.

The theologian who has no joy in his work is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this science.

For if a pastor is not in touch with joy, it will be difficult to teach or preach convincingly that the news is good.

Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.