Quotes about Joy

You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing to you and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever.

May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy. Colossians 1:11

He will pray to God, and God will delight in him. That man will behold His face with a shout of joy. Job 33:26

We resist offering ourselves wholly to anyone or anything that has the potential to encroach on our personal desires, and Jesus made clear from the start that God's will and ours would be in conflict at times. Yet our surrender to Jesus is also ultimately our surrender to joy.

Let us be glad, rejoice, and give Him glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has prepared herself. Revelation 19:7

Satisfy us in the morning with Your faithful love so that we may shout with joy and be glad all our days. Psalm 90:14

Shout to God with a jubilant cry. For the LORD Most High is awe-inspiring, a great King over all the earth. Psalm 47:1—2

Happy are the people who know the joyful shout; Lord, they walk in the light of Your presence. Psalm 89:15

If peace is the fruit of righteousness (Isa. 32:17), then joy is the wine from the fruit! Joy will ultimately flow from obedience, and few things display God's splendor any more appealingly than joy!

As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!" (Luke 1:44—45).

Peace is the fruit of righteousness which, in essence, is obedience to God's commands—the product of abiding in the vine. The wine which flows from the ripened fruit is joy!

We are the bride of the Prince of Peace!