Quotes about Joy

Laughter—just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.

Indeed, the world is our mission field, and Jesus is our model incarnational missionary who went before us and now goes with us as we continue in his work by his Spirit as his church for his glory to our joy.

we receive suffering when it comes as an opportunity for God to do something good in us and through us. We rejoice not in the pain but rather in what it can accomplish for the gospel so that something as costly as suffering is not wasted but used for God's glory, our joy, and others' good.

Comparison is the death of joy.

what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it's how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them.

It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.

it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.

I don't think it's that hard [to lead a Christian life]. To me it's fun. We have joy and happiness.

The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for.