Quotes about Joy

In the words of the Scottish proverb, 'Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Get rid of sad dogs who spread gloom.

Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.

By making sad ones happy, we find our happiness!

If you have shed a thousand tears, expect a thousand blessings.

Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.

All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

We were not afraid. And yet, if a bomb had fallen on the blocks, it alone would have claimed hundreds of victims on the spot. But we were no longer afraid of death; at any rate, not of that death. Every bomb that exploded filled us with joy and gave us new confidence in life.

Christ is sufficient. We do not need support groups for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.

The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out of death is what the Bible teaches, and the people who have believed it enough to live it out in simple, humble, day-by-day practice are people who have found the gain, the joy, the getting, the fulfillment, the life.