Quotes about Joy
Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable.
— Oprah Winfrey
We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.
— William James
I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.
— Drew Barrymore
Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
— Victor Hugo
It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.
— Samuel Johnson
It is impossible to be both selfish and happy
— Joyce Meyer
Singing about being rescued will never get old. Never.
— Travis Thrasher
I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.
— Jane Goodall
Notice the first reason people reject the gospel is that "the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts" (v. 12). That's deception—the deceiving spirits and demons I mentioned earlier. The second reason is more complicated. Jesus described those who hear the good news and "receive the word with joy" (v. 13). These people are genuinely excited about Christianity.
— David Jeremiah
Let us move into the New Year with a great sense of the thrill of living.
— Norman Vincent Peale
To suffer and to be happy although suffering, to have one's feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty and rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at the Father's right hand, to laugh and cry with the children of this world and ceaselessly sing the praises of God with the choirs of angels—this is the life of the Christian until the morning of eternity breaks forth.
— Edith Stein
Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there.
— Edith Wharton