Quotes about Joy
Life loves the liver of it.
— Maya Angelou
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
— Cicero
As God contains all good things, He must also contain a sense of playfulness -- a gift he has shared with Creatures other than ourselves, as witness the tricks Crows play, and the sportiveness of Squirrels, and the frolicking of Kittens.
— Margaret Atwood
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
— Marianne Williamson
Wine enlivens the human soul.
— Euripides
Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.
— Francois Rabelais
After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.
— AW Pink
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
— Thomas Jefferson
He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.
— Thomas Watson
There is an uncalculating, unaffected, unbound excitement in us when the Spirit is given freedom to express Himself through us.
— Lloyd John Ogilvie
There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know Him and to speak to others of our friendship with Him.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Friendship multiplies joy and divides sorrow.
— Nicky Gumbel