Joy

"People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!"

"Discovering more joy does not, save us from th inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily too. Perhaps we are just more alive. Yet as we discover more joy, we can face suffering in a way that ennobles rather than embitters. We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken."

"No, it was not regret which made Anne's heart beat in spite of herself, and brought the colour into her cheeks when she thought of Captain Wentworth unshackled and free. She had some feelings which she was ashamed to investigate. They were too much like joy, senseless joy!"

"Think of joy! Think of realities! Realities bring real joy and inner peace even in discomfort!"

"What is most decisive is God's Joy Project is not that we fully grasp it, but that our sovereign God fully grasps us."

"In the greatest sorrow, we shall find the grace of joy."

"True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness."

"The young man murmured in his sleep and said, “Dear Sparrow,” and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness."

"...and gentle happy and peaceful, tasting the mean goodness of their living like the last of their suppers in their mouths."

"There are people out there waiting for you. Indeed, you are the only one who can bring joy in the heart of people. Yes, sometimes only with one smile."

"It is as if joy were the default setting of human emotion, not the furtive, fugitive glimpses it becomes in lives compromised by necessity, familiarity, ‘maturity,’ suffering. You must become as little children, Jesus said, a statement that is often used to justify anti-intellectualism and the renunciation of reason, but which I take actually to mean that we must recover this sense of wonder, this excess of spirit brimming out of the body."

"Im not looking for perfection, just perfect flaws."

"Awe ignites joy because it makes us bend the knee."

"Be the kind of person who is a joy to be around. Caring for and loving others brings out the best in you and keeps your heart open to the unspoken and deeply buried needs of others."

"We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy."

"You cannot impose a culture from the top--it must come from under. It grows out of the soil, out of the people, out of their daily life and work. It is a spontaneous expression of their joy of life, of their joy in work, and if this does not exist, the culture will not exist. Joy is a spiritual quality, an impalpable quality: that too cannot be forced. It must be an inevitable state of mind, born of the elementary processes of life, a by-product of natural human growth."

"But Mary had not come into the world to be sad or to help another to be sad. Sorrowful we may often have to be, but to indulge in sorrow is either not to know or to deny God our Saviour. True, her heart ached for Letty; and the ache immediately laid itself as close to Letty's ache as it could lie; but that was only the advance-guard of her army of salvation, the light cavalry of sympathy: the next division was help; and behind that lay patience, and strength, and hope, and faith,and joy. This last, modern teachers, having failed to regard it as a virtue, may well decline to regard as a duty; but he is a poor Christian indeed in whom joy has not at least a growing share, and Mary was not a poor Christian--at least, for the time she had been learning, and as Christians go in the present aeon of their history."

"you have everything. still ,you have nothing . sad ."

"To radiate joy is to reveal deep compassion for hurting people"

"Usually when we talk about blessings, we experience joy and anticipation of a greater presence of God in our lives"