Quotes about Joy

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate. (on the birth of his granddaughter)

The superhuman task of transforming present society into a state of peace and joy requires more than ordinary human power; if God himself does not work the change, hope can be cherished only when human power is divinized.

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There's always laughter and good red wine. At least I've always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus...

As awesome as life in Eden must have been like, our life in him will ultimately be far better.

Don't die to see me, live to love me.

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have, but blessed be God, I have a contented heart which others have not.

The Lord is my strength, my shield from every danger. I trust in him with all my heart. He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy. I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.

Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.