Quotes about Joy

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man;

There is a huge difference between being bound in relationship by the joy of love, and being tied up in obligation and guilt.

Grace transforms desolate and bleak plains into rich, green pastures. It changes grit-your-teeth duty into loving, enthusiastic service. It exchanges the tears and guilt of our own failed efforts for the eternal thrill and laughter of freely offered pleasures at the right hand of God. Grace changes everything!

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

The only thing that mattered was the honor and joy of walking with God.

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate. (on the birth of his granddaughter)

The superhuman task of transforming present society into a state of peace and joy requires more than ordinary human power; if God himself does not work the change, hope can be cherished only when human power is divinized.

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There's always laughter and good red wine. At least I've always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus...