Quotes about Joy

Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being.

The presence of God is not a burden to bear!

When God's Spirit moves mightily, there will be shouting, rejoicing and holy noise.

Physical death is the final letting go that we all experience with loved ones and that we will ourselves experience one day. Dying now the way Jesus says to means letting go already of every comfort, familiarity, joy, and sorrow—and of the false sense of control those things give us. Letting go of these things is a dying process. Jesus sounds more like a mystic than an intellectual lining up correct thinking.

We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”

So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she named him Dan.

Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad.

Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.