Quotes about Joy

Imagine having drug cravings subdued by the joy of knowing and obeying Christ. Imagine having temptations lose their allure because there is more pleasure in walking humbly with our God. Imagine waking up and strategizing how to please the God who loves you rather than where you will get your next drink. This would be freedom. Sound impossible? It isn't.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

Das Glück ist das einzige, das sich verdoppelt, wenn man es teilt.

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it. If our taking up the Cross imply our bidding adieu to all joy and satisfaction, how is it reconcilable with what Solomon expressly affirms of religion, that 'her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace?'