Top 1200 True Joy Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

Many Things That Are True Are True Because You Believe Them.

But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable entity we call the school. Not exactly the building, not exactly the faculty or the students or the alumni - more than all those things but also less, a paradox, an order, a mystery, a monster, an utter joy.

Error increases with distance. It's true with bowling, and it's true with families.

I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Just staying healthy, that is true wealth and true happiness.

So, I'm on Sesame Street, walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. Sesame Street is just a crazy great place to be.

So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

If evolution is true, you could not know that it’s true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. Think about that.

For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.

So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

There's so much written about my family, some true, mostly not true, and I felt that it's not something I want to add to.

My favorite part about being a father is playing toys with them, or watching movies with them, really just playing around with them. They bring a lot of joy in to my life, even when I'm having a bad day. Just to come home and see them smiling brings so much joy to my life.

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

Many are asking what my credentials are and what I can do for the Philippines. They are telling me that they heard I am a womanizer. That is true. That is very true.

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure?

I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away.

Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.

Your true friends will tell you what they believe is true.

It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

Christmas is a time of little time. How we get there is a mystery. Racing madly mall-to-mall, we climb Into fields of sunlit harmony. Shopping, cooking, clearing walks and yards, Trimming house and tree while working, too; Making phone calls, wrapping, writing cards, As all worn out we do what we must do So that this day of joy might joy renew.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within. She lives not for herself, but lives to serve the Lord of Love in all, and swims across the sea of life breasting its rough waves joyfully.

I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.

But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their consciousness. Nearly all the time ... they ... act as if Science were indisputably True, and what's more, as if only science were true.... Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call "unscientific," using this word as a smear word, by bringing in the connotation from its original [Greek] meaning, to imply that the information is false, or at any rate slightly phony.

I actually went back and watched all of 'True Detective''s Season One again, which I think is a true masterpiece.

The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.

What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.

Yet, know this if you understand nothing else: You have a right to your joy; children or no children; spouse or no spouse. Seek it! Find it! And you will have a joyful family, no matter how much money you make or don't make. And if they aren't joyful, and they get up and leave you, then release them with love to seek their joy.

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

In love you don't doubt, no question. Only when you think you doubt, but when you love you don't doubt, you just love because you enjoy love. And that's why love is joy and joy is love.

It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

I want you to sense the Holy Spirit brooding over you. Is this too good to be true? You betcha, it's the good news. Does He border on fantasy? You betcha, it's the gospel. Glad tidings of great joy, heaven has come instead of hell, Jesus has come instead of the devil. You can have the life you always wanted, instead of the life you have always had - instead. That is possible because of the absolute, incredible, incomparable favor of God.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Two things have been bothering me for a long time. The first is the tendency of people in general - and that includes Christians - to "relativize" religion. Any religious belief is only "true for," so to speak - true for you or true for me or true for those people on the other side of the world. Second, I've been bothered by how poorly believers understand their own Story. They have bits and pieces, of course, but they're missing enough that they can easily become prey to ideas that sound spiritual, but end up being foolishness in the end.

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].

... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

Just stay true to yourself and true to wut you believe.

True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come and they call again but you still don’t come, and they call you by all your names together, and then, of course, you have to come, and right quick. Because true names have power, like Lye said. But I never told anyone my true name. The Green Wind told me not to. I didn’t understand what he meant, but I do now.

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

What I am anxious to see in Christian believers is a beautiful paradox. I want to see in them the joy of finding God while at the same time they are blessedly pursuing Him. I want to see in them the great joy of having God yet always wanting Him.