Quotes about Joy
As awesome as life in Eden must have been like, our life in him will ultimately be far better.
— Lisa Bevere
Don't die to see me, live to love me.
— Jeff Hardy
One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have, but blessed be God, I have a contented heart which others have not.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
The Lord is my strength, my shield from every danger. I trust in him with all my heart. He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy. I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.
— Marianne Williamson
Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.
— Michael Horton
Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.
— Phillips Brooks
Mother Teresa once said, "Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile." ... The last thing many believers need is to go to another Bible study.
— Rick Warren
Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.
— Erica Jong
Nothing under the sun can be as dry and flat and tedious and exhausting as religious work without the wonder.
— Vance Havner