Quotes about Joy
Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly
— Sam Storms
Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly refreshment is at best a sipping from intermittent springs, but God is the ocean!
— Sam Storms
Not only will it never end, it will never diminish in its capacity to enthrall and fascinate and impart joy. It
— Sam Storms
God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.
— Sam Storms
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part
— Samuel Johnson
Pleasure itself is not a vice
— Samuel Johnson
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.
— Samuel Johnson
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
— Samuel Johnson
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
— Samuel Johnson
It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.
— Samuel Johnson
The thorn is one of the most cursed, and angry, and crabbed weeds that the earth yieldeth, and yet out of it springeth the rose, one of the sweetest-smelled flowers, and most delightful to the eye, that the earth hath. Your Lord shall make joy and gladness out of your afflictions; for all His roses have a fragrant smell. Wait for the time when His own holy hand shall hold them to your nose...
— Samuel Rutherford
The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen