Top 1200 Christmas Joy Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.

The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent in the most fertile subject matter; the joy lies in transforming that subject matter and thus moving through it in a way that helps us grow while we create something of value to others.

My favourite part of Christmas is being together as a family.

I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.

Marriage. . . is the most glorious and most exalting principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ. No ordinance is of more importance and none more sacred and more necessary to the eternal joy of man. Faithfulness to the marriage covenant brings the fullest joy here and glorious rewards hereafter.

[Donald] Trump is a [Hillary] Clinton Christmas gift.

Not to decide is to decide. Letting something go until it 'decides itself' is Life by Default. You don't want to live that way. So choose. Choose right now. Stop worrying about what you can 'lose' or how you can 'win' and just follow your joy. Where does your joy say you should go?

The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility.

Christmas is a box of tree ornaments that have become part of the family.

Untangling Christmas lights is the true tragedy of 'Stranger Things.'

We have been impossible right from the beginning and we must continue to be impossible because we are raising a voice against suffering which has been considered to be the nature of life. It is our joy to be considered impossible - and it is our greater joy to make the impossible a living reality.

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.

Anyone out there considering doing a Christmas wedding, definitely do it!

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.

Not everyone who sells Christmas trees believes in Santa Claus.

We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.

Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.

When you are sharing your joy, you don't create a prison for anybody - you simply give. You don´t even expect gratitude or thankfulness, because you are giving, but not to get anything, not even gratitude. You are giving because you are so full of joy and life, you have to give.

Christmas is a good time to take stock of our blessings.

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

I don't like to see Christmas trees torn down.

Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing.

I celebrate three holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Telluride.

To shut down the ability to feel pain means you shut down all emotions, joy included. It makes our hearts feel small, it robs us of our joy, and really keeps us no safer.

I always watch the Morecambe and Wise Christmas special.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

My family, as you can probably guess, was more into Christmas cookies and not so much the fruitcake.

The heart of myself has always been something just wanting so bad. I have had an empty center, black as a basement, but also knowing about light and waiting. Young as I am, I know now that everything is about to come. Jimmy will be the place for me to learn the real happiness. He will be my Joy School. My joy. Mine.

Eric Peters is a chronicler of his journey; he's been a faithful steward of the story God is telling through him, and this newest chapter, BiRDS OF RELOCATiON, is Eric's testimony that along the way there are moments of deep joy and gratitude-they may seem brief, but they're bright, and they're worth singing about. The joy I hear on this record heralds a long and welcome peace.

Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.

You must be made miserable before you can know true Christian joy. Indeed the real trouble with the miserable Christian is that he has never been truly made miserable because of conviction of sin. He has by-passed the essential preliminary to joy, he has been assuming something that he has no right to assume.

I wanted to feel like I could extend someone else's joy and not crush it, and that is the giant paradox nowadays of being a powerful woman: you want to live in a space of compassion and helpfulness and joy and expression, and the world is standing there, pointing the finger at you and telling you that you're greedy and domineering and attention-grabbing, and all you can do is shrug and just say, "Hopefully, someone out there understands and isn't misinterpreting."

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

When I think of happiness or joy in this life, I begin with some experiences that are simple and basic. I see the expression on the face of a one-year-old taking those first steps. I think of a child loving a puppy or a kitten. If the more mature have not dulled their physical or spiritual sensitivities by excess or disuse, they can also experience joy in what is simple and basic.

I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.

For me, hearing my voice is sometimes a little nauseating, especially at Christmas.

Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas.

I try to shop online. All my food, Christmas gifts, everything.

Since I was 15, I have not spent a Christmas or a New Year with my family.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

Sometimes the best Christmas present is remembering what you've already got.

The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.

Christmas is cheery for some people and depressing for others.

We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.

If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

Christmas hath a beauty ... lovelier than the world can show.

I love this time of year. I'm the world's biggest Christmas fan!

Everybody is great and the chemistry is different with everyone. That is the joy of acting - you really don't know how it is going to go until you turn up. It's like playing tennis, you can't plan for the match you are going to play until you are actually up against your opponent and what happens, happens. That is the joy of being on set.

Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to show that the bonds of law can only be explained by love; they are like body and soul. Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover.

There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

My memories of Christmas, it was more about being around family.

I think we listen to music because we want to be changed. Music is not solely for our entertainment. Music has such tremendous power to bring joy. To me, that's our job as artists. Not happiness, not a groove, whatever. You must bring joy. I think that's the assignment. I have no doubt about it.

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.