Joy Quotes
True inner joy is self-created.It does not depend on outer circumstances.A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy.This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.
The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life
What is most decisive is God's Joy Project is not that we fully grasp it, but that our sovereign God fully grasps us.
True happiness is not found. It finds you.
Your self-defense becomes a self-defeat when you are doing it for selfish reasons! It's not about you and your pocket alone
You are my wine, my joy, My garden, my springtime, My slumber, my repose, Without you, I can't cope.
There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won’t fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.
If we were perfect—if there were no remaining corruption in our hearts—there would be no fight. There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won’t fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.
Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).
This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.
The winners of life's game always set and have goals in focus that they score to fulfill their purposes of existence and making the planet earth to celebrate joy
Reject the fearmongering. Adopt best practices. Slow down.
Even when our children are still young and defenseless, we feel intimations of their departure. We find ourselves staring at them with nostalgia, wistful for the person they're about to no longer be.
You don't have a good story until something deviates from the expected, " says McAdams. "And raising children leads to some pretty unexpected happenings.
My grandmother, a dim, stern figure, named her children Lily and Violet, which I guess from seeing a picture of my mother's paved, ugly backyard, was the nearest she came to a garden.
She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.
Excerpt from "The Strength in Knowing"Doubt is the archenemy of the purity of thought and it inhibits theessence of all that is
Struggle is the meaning of life
Invest in yourself. You get OUT what you put IN.
Don't sacrifice the good to chase the perfect.
If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself.Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfullyAnd more self-givingly.
There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny, it wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary and if it wanted to it would.
We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.
Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.
Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.
Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.
It’s voyeuristic the way you searchfor answers in these cries for help, and how you see Death’s fingersbut always think they’re paintbrushes.
I felt happier yesterday. I do not feel happy today – I feelabandoned and godless and brokenin a church built for the damnedwith artificial light through stained glassand warped wooden doors.
Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.
No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.
Ian was living in fairyland and in our own way we all helped him to stay there.
You pray in your distress and in your need
By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.
My new favorite quote is, "Feed kids Cokes and french fries and you get an obesity crisis. Feed them mental junk food and you get non-readers and poor thinkers.
I meditateSo that I can inundateMy entire beingWith the omnipotent power of peace.
People, places and experiences aren’t meant to be labeled and judged, they are meant to be loved and appreciated, since deep down inside, the nature we all share is love, light and happiness.
You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.
But you can't stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.
In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.
That's nice, isn't it?" Edith said. "That little kid is so trusting it's kind of holy, but if his trust were misplaced it would really be holy.
Do not get discouraged if you feel He is not answering your questions or speaking to your situation. He will. Trust Him in the wait. He is at work.
I had to take a step of faith and look beyond my circumstances. I had to make a conscious choice to trust Him.