4,580 Quotes About Joy

God desires to be Lord over you. Not Lord around your schedule. Until you learn to schedule your life around Him you will never know Him. The Lord is inviting His last day children to rediscover the joy of His presence.

The greatest obstruction to our joy in God is not a lack of time.

The pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.

Without pain, how would we know what true joy feels like?

The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy.

She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.

We’re only here briefly. And while I’m here I want to allow myself joy.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death