Top 1200 Joy Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do.

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

Capacity for joy Admits temptation.

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea. Few men can keep alive through a big serf to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind: and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

Everything I do has to come from a sense of fun and joy.

The family is where most of our joy comes from.

Words can not express the joy of new life.

Joy is more infectious than leprosy.

Food is just the greatest joy on the planet.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

One must have sorrow to truly appreciate joy.

Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will be our everlasting joy. But if we refuse His love and remain in the coldness of sin and opposition to Him and to other men then will His fire (by our own choice rather than His) become our everlasting enemy, and Love, instead of being our joy, will become our torment and our destruction.

Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

Find joy and peace in this very moment.

Your joy lies within you.

The path to joy leads through despair.

Enjoy the joy of being enjoyed by God.

The hurt you embrace becomes joy.

The joy of intimacy is the reward of commitment.

With God in the Joy of Beauty and Youth

Joy is the grace we say to God.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

As we heal, the Earth Mother feels our joy. We are like cells in and on her body. The power of love, the power of healing, the power of compassion, the power of unity, and the power of knowing are our abilities. These are the gifts our Earth Mother seeks to share with us at this time. Through reconnecting to the celebration of life we are able to let go of our grief and fear. When we Walk in Beauty, we acknowledge every aspect of the Self. The Power Places of our planet are those that have seen the joy of our Earth Mother when her children have grown toward wholeness, celebrating life.

These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth is that joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself, and of everything, that it is conscious of nothing, and able to speak of nothing, save of that which proceeds from its joy... Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should we want to be more sensible than she? What can give us greater pleasure than to do as she does? And may all the creatures join with us for ever and ever. Amen, amen, amen.

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too?

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.

Men are that they might have joy . . . not guilt trips.

'Saturday Night Live' was the joy of my life.

One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

You are joy, wisdom, peace, compassion, and love

We laugh to survive. Then, with joy we thrive.

Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular.

Pain is joy when it cries, it's my smile in disguise.

Friendship multiplies joy and divides sorrow.

If I can bring joy into the world, then I'll be successful.

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

When you are a thankful person it releases joy.

The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.

Joy is the vital air of the soul.

Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth.

Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.

Reality is only possible if you are in the realm of joy.

This earth is not our home. We are away at school, trying to master the lessons of "the great plan of happiness" so we can return home and know what it means to be there. Over and over the Lord tells us why the plan is worth our sacrifice - and His. Eve called it "the joy of our redemption." Jacob called it "that happiness which is prepared for the saints." Of necessity, the plan is full of thorns and tears - His and ours. But because He and we are so totally in this together, our being "at one" with Him in overcoming all opposition will itself bring us "incomprehensible joy."

All we really want is love's confusing joy.

The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.

I'm all about cultivating joy in your life.

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.

It is Love that gives joy to happiness.

We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.

Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.

Anything that we do in NXT is a joy to be a part of to be honest.

When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.