Quotes about Joy

You can face your weakness with joy because you know that you have been given grace for that weakness; grace that is not a thing, but a person—the Holy Spirit, who makes you the place where he dwells in power.

Only when the greatest pleasure in your life is the knowledge that God is pleased by the way you are living can you handle pleasure properly.

The DNA of joy is thankfulness. Have you noticed that entitled, complaining people don't happen to be very joyful?

If you find more joy in serving God than yourself, you know that grace has entered your door, because only grace has the power to rescue you from you.

In all these warnings against pleasure, truth is mixed with untruth. Insofar as they strengthen our responsibility, they are true; insofar as they undercut our joy, they are wrong.

Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being.

The presence of God is not a burden to bear!

When God's Spirit moves mightily, there will be shouting, rejoicing and holy noise.

Physical death is the final letting go that we all experience with loved ones and that we will ourselves experience one day. Dying now the way Jesus says to means letting go already of every comfort, familiarity, joy, and sorrow—and of the false sense of control those things give us. Letting go of these things is a dying process. Jesus sounds more like a mystic than an intellectual lining up correct thinking.

We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.