Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.
You must...know that you are great. Never forget that. It is where true joy lies.
Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.
True joy of nature is when every drop of water shines like a pearl.
Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste joy, and if we are suspicious of ecstasy, agony can never reach us either. Joy and sorrow are the parents of our spiritual growth.
We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.
The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.
Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.
Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a joy.
When its true, when it's right, love can give you the kind of joy that you can't get from any other experience.
Joy is strength- Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy.
Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included. It is the expression of happiness, of being in harmony with ourselves, that which can only come from being in harmony with God and with his creation. It belongs to the nature of joy to be radiant; it must communicate itself. The missionary spirit of the Church is none other than the impulse to communicate the joy which has been given.
A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.
The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
What is joy? Joy is nothing but the Self. When desires are fulfilled, the mind is stilled. This allows the Self to shine forth and that is what we call joy.
Nothing brings me more joy than seeing other people's dreams come true.
Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.
True humility means giving joy to others.
True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments.
Your true nature is purity, peace and joy.
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!
For malice will with joy the lie receive,
Report, and what it wishes true believe.
The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.
Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.
It was far in the sameness of the wood;
I was running with joy on the Demon's trail,
Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.
True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.
God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.
I get true joy out of that, being able to help people.
For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.
Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21).
True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.
The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Eventually, you have to stop picking a fight with your true nature and decide to seek the joy that underlies it all.
Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.
The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.
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.
True joy is independence of circumstances - Choose to rejoice!
I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.
It took two," I said. "Two different people to make the Heartwood what it is. Two different experiences, grief and joy, combined. True love never has just one face, does it? It must always have two, or it isn't true love at all.
We say that God is true; that the Constitution of the United States is true; that the Bible is true; and that the Book of Mormon is true, and that Christ is true
Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.
True joy is only hope put out of fear.
True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.
Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes.
And the joy of my job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing.
True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.
I truly am living out what true joy and happiness means.
These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
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