Quotes about Joy

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.

When God created dogs He just sat back and smiled.

Jesus promised His disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble.

Whenever religion becomes a depressing affair of burdens and prohibitions, it ceases to be true religion.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

This day, I saw clearly that I should never be happy, yea, that God Himself could not make me happy, unless I could be in a capacity to 'please and glorify Him forever.' Take away this and admit me into all the fine heavens that can be conceived of by men or angels, and I should still be miserable forever.

We give with joy in our hearts. We give out of our humble circumstances. We give out of our wealth.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.