Quotes about Joy

Romans 15:13: "I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit." Our job is to trust. God's job is to overflow us with joy.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Sometimes you have to find the happy places between the pain.

Apart from you, I have no good thing,' and that God fills him with joy in His presence. It helps me remember that I'm not alone.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

I'm the lucky one who got asked to do 'The Sound of Music' and all the other lovely things that I did.

What should be boundless is one's love of life, not one's love of art or knowledge.

Learn a lot. Laugh a lot. Love a lot. Live a lot.

If those who seek happiness would stop one little minute and think, they would see that the delights they already experience are as countless as the grasses at their feet, or the dewdrops sparkling upon the morning flowers.

Isn't God the one who urges us to Make a joyful noise unto the Lord? Why do we always think that means singing? Seems to me the most obvious joyful sound on earth is laughter... I've seen folks quote verses like Rejoice in the Lord always while their faces look like they just buried a rich uncle who willed everything to his pregnant guinea pig. Something is missing.

For they are rebellious against You. But let all who take refuge in You be glad, Let them ever sing for joy; And may You shelter them, That those who love Your name may exult in You. For it is You who blesses the righteous man, O LORD, You surround him with favor as with a shield. (Psalm 5)

What happened when these people sang was more than just humans hitting notes. The music seemed to come from somewhere deep inside and when their voices united, it felt like goosebumps on the soul. Something like joy bubbled up from inside her and leaked through her eyes.

There is no gift to the world like a man doing what he enjoys.