Joy

"When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities."

"I am feeling more. I feel everything more. I cannot express it. I can hardly keep track of it all. It is you! All you! Everything!"

"We are above all things loved--that is the good news of the gospel--and loved not just the way we turn up on Sundays in our best clothes and on our best behavior and with our best feet forward, but loved as we alone know ourselves to be, the weakest and shabbiest of what we are along with the strongest and gladdest. To come together as people who believe that just maybe this gospel is actually true should be to come together like people who have just won the Irish Sweepstakes. It should have us throwing our arms around each other like people who have just discovered that every single man and woman in those pews is not just another familiar or unfamiliar face but is our long-lost brother and our long-lost sister because despite the fact that we have all walked in different gardens and knelt at different graves, we have all, humanly speaking, come from the same place and are heading out into the same blessed mystery that awaits us all. This is the joy that is so apt to be missing, and missing not just from church but from our own lives--the joy of not just managing to believe at least part of the time that it is true that life is holy, but of actually running into that holiness head-on."

"The most inspirational feeling I can come up with is... The feeling of presence."

"You are most beautiful when your eyes are glowing with kindness and joy."

"My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life."

"Greater than all the joy of success and victory is the joy of true love and the of giving of yourself."

"Ah! Let the soul dance with joy Let us sit in dark deep silencenow feel, see and enjoy!"

"When you spend time in the presence of God, you will experience everlasting peace and joy."

"Joy, you are my everything. You are everything that matters to me. Tell me that you understand. Tell me that you feel this, too."

"Surrender to love to feel the joy of life."

"Every new friend is a fresh flower with endless beauty, love and joy."

"Spring has a secret to tell us: life is for beauty and life is for joy."

"You have never let me down. You are always there for me. You are the best part of me, who I want to be, and every time I look at you I can hardly believe how lucky I am to be with you and I hope you know that."

"To feel the joy too much:let us trust too much,let us love too much, let us hope too muchand let us belong too much."

"It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!"

"Every word appears in our mind as a composite of everything else we associate with it. We by default personify every word, because in each of our minds, when we think of a certain person, there is one word that is the biggest part of that composite image. If I said swimming, singing or story telling each word is personified by someone different in each of our minds. It is very important to not let hate, treachery or any negative thing be personified by anyone in our mind, also not to give any reason that we would personify them in someone else’s mind. Any space in our hearts we allow hate to occupy, is space that could be filled with love. There will come a time in every person’s life, when they realize they are woefully wanting in the love they have cultivated in their heart. How amazing to think of the contrary: that you personified love in someone’s mind. What better compliment could we ever hear, than for someone to say, that we are their personification of love? I think it’s something that is not too often said, but oh that it was, and more, that there were more reason to say it. My wish is that every person could wake up in the morning with a prayer, that they may have the courage, diligence and desire to love more truly, sincerely and objectively; that every night we reflect on what we may have represented by our thoughts, words and deeds,” Jefferson concluded."

"If you have really given your burden over to God, then soon your ministry will bring you great joy!"

"It’s a privilege to serve God. Above all, serving God is joy and happiness!"

"No matter how long your night may have been, as the earth remains, your morning will definitely come."