Quotes about Joy

True happiness is always self-forgetful: it loses itself in the object of its joy. As the joy of the Holy Ghost fills us, and we rejoice in God the Holy One, through our Lord Jesus Christ. [. . .] Love and joy ever keep company. Love, denying and forgetting itself for the brethren and the lost, living in them, finds the joy of God. 'The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Ghost.

And there they were, empty, ignorant, helpless, glad, and joyful, but deeply humbled.

Let the infinite Fatherliness of God's Heart be my joy and strength for a life of prayer and of worship. Amen.

Let Thy wonderful revelation of a Father's tenderness free all young Christians from every thought of secret prayer as a duty or a burden, and lead them to regard it as the highest privilege of their life, a joy and a blessing.

The complaints of many Christians as to lack of joy and strength, as to failure and want of growth, are simply owing to this—the place God gave Holiness in His call they have not given it in their response. God and they have never yet come to an agreement on this.

I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love to others.

God's love, and I begin to long for God's love in a very different sense from which I have sought it so selfishly—as a comfort, a joy, a happiness, and a pleasure to myself. I will not learn it until I realize that "God is love."

To be alone in secret with the Father: this be your highest joy. To be assured that the Father will openly reward the secret prayer, so that it cannot remain unblessed.

joy in prayer is sign of communion with God that shows that God is everything to them.

Pray that He will make you willing to give up everything for the Christlike joy of the Father's constant presence.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.