Quotes about Joy

Satan is a liar. He wants to steal our joy and replace it with hopelessness. When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us. Meese encouraged me by reminding me of the real reason we have for fully living this life. It's to give everything we have to God--even the heartbreaks and pain. God is our reason to live.

None of the hymns that filled the air were about Jesus' sacrifice or death. I heard no sad songs and instinctively knew that there are no sad songs in heaven.

The existence of free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

I was twenty years old at the time. Three years earlier I had experienced for the first time the new life, the love, the joy of knowing Jesus Christ in a personal way. A crisis came, I called upon Him, and suddenly He was there, alive! In fact, two thousand years had not aged Him a bit! I found He still had the same power to transform men's lives and hold their loyalty that He had manifested in the Gospels two millenniums before.

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

Your primary calling is to worship ... to pursue celebration and rejoicing as a way of life.

Happiness is not something that you get in life, hapiness is something that you bring in life

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life.

A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.

You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.