Quotes about Joy
The fight for joy is the fight to see and believe Christ as more to be desired than the promises of sin.
— John Piper
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.
— John Piper
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.5
— John Piper
The further up you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory, and that this aim is no other than the endless, ever-increasing joy of his people in that glory.
— John Piper
What makes born-again people glad is not at bottom that they have God's gifts but that they have God.
— John Piper
For Jesus, the demand for joy is a way to live with suffering and to outlast suffering.
— John Piper
The road to heaven is a hard road, but it is not joyless.
— John Piper
God is glorified not only by His glory's being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
— John Piper
When we understand that seeing Christ is what leads to enjoying Christ, and that therefore the fight for joy is mainly a fight to see, we grasp how the fight does not undermine the fact that joy is a gift and a spontaneous experience
— John Piper
Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.
— John Piper
This delight which God has in his creature's happiness cannot properly be said to be what God receives from the creature. For it is only the effect of his own work in and communications to the creature, in making it and admitting it to a participation of his fullness, as the sun receives nothing from the jewel that receives its light and shines only by a participation of its brightness.
— John Piper
God is not worshiped where He is not treasured and enjoyed. Praise is not an alternative to joy, but the expression of joy. Not to enjoy God is to dishonor Him. To say to Him that something else satisfies you more is the opposite of worship. It is sacrilege.
— John Piper