Quotes about Joy

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works), He must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy.

Let me see you, O Light of my eyes. Come, O Joy of my spirit; let me behold you, O Gladness of my heart. Let me love you, O Life of my soul. Appear unto me, O my great delight, my sweet comfort, O my God, my life, and the whole glory of my soul. Let me find you, O Desire of my heart; let me hold you, O Love of my soul. Let me embrace you, O Heavenly Bridegroom. Let me possess you.

Find a place where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Laughter is God's blessing.

ROMANS 8:28, NKJV One of the most interesting and remarkable things Christians learn is that laughter does not exclude weeping. Christian joy is not an escape from sorrow. Pain and hardship still come, but they are unable to drive out the happiness of the redeemed.... Joy is what God gives, not what we work up. Laughter is the delight that things are working together for good to those who love God, an overflow of spirits that comes from feeling good not about yourself but about God.

Where relationships are warm and expectancies fresh, we are already beginning to enjoy the life together that will be completed in our life everlasting.

The theologian who has no joy in his work is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this science.