If it be a point of humanity for man to bring health and comfort to man, and especially to mitigate and assuage the grief of others, and by taking from them the sorrow and heaviness...

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

Psalm 139 and Jeremiah 29:11

I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I’ve seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of...

Joy is a practice, not an involuntary state.

There is reason for joy.

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I have no greater joy than to know that my children walk in truth.

If someone doesn’t care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don’t hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are.

Transformation occurs when you open your mind to experience freedom. During the process, you transform your thoughts which enable you to leave behind old habits and negative thinking. You are then able to conquer your...

Happy endings happen every day we share our generosity, peace, compassion, kindness, respect, timeless love and joy with our love ones, friends and others.

Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around him till he occupies his true place in relation to God. When he serves...

My heart dances with joy and sings with passion when it hears the music of love.

The one who can make full sense of love and lives within its narrow expections undresses no weeping face.

For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man.

But Jesus, our Advocate, presents an effectual plea in behalf of all who by repentance and faith have committed the keeping of their souls to Him.He pleads their cause, and by the mighty arguments of...

The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don’t live for yourself alone. Live for others too!

I feel like spring after winter, and sun on the leaves; and like trumpets and harps and all the songs I have ever heard!

happening.” Depending on what’s happening in our lives, we’re either happy or sad. It’s based on pure luck and good fortune.

Open your heart! Dance with joy and love.

Sadness is pervasive, so focus on joy, focus on happiness.

Respect Joy. Joy is not something that happens instead of something else important; It isn’t a waste of time; It is, really, what time was invented for.” -David Sosnowski, Rapture. (Pg. 92)

When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don’t go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been...

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in...

The most beautiful is to see the joy in your eyes.

I want God to be first in my life, so I’m putting Him first in my life today.

I love her like a major holiday. You know, not enough people celebrate the joy that is Tax Season, with the High Holy Day coming on April 15th.

Ainsi dans le faste ostenstatoire d’une dernière cérémonie, le bourgeois, laissant à ses fils un héritage plus riche que celui qu’il a reçu de son père, quite ce monde où il a conu au moins...

Durch das Leid hindurch, nicht am Leid vorbei, geht der Weg zur Freude.

Just as the rain carries positive ions, so does change make you more apt to experience love with an expansive heart.

It is great joy to love and be loved.

Ambition is the death of joy.

Always re-invent yourself. Always try new things; new food, new hobbies, meet new people. That will keep your life from becoming stagnant and boring. And you will have a lot more fun!

Do not worry yourself so much. Take joy in things that are joyful, there is no harm in that.

The thing that I was experiencing and dwelling on the entire time is that there are so many things that are not OK and that will never be OK again. But there’s also so many...

I pray this new year will be greater, smooth and brings best aroma to our smelling, normal burning for toothpicks, blue colours for great celebration, unlimited joy from nw, then and beyound in JESUS name...

There was a worm addicted to grape leaves, she continued, and suddenly it woke up. Call it a miracle, whatever, something woke it up and it wasn’t a worm anymore. It was the whole vineyard,...

If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.

And while throughout the self same motion Repeated on forever flows The thousandfold o er arching ocean Its strong embrace around all throws Streams through all things the joy of living The least star thrilleth...

God is glorified not by calling strong women but by giving His strength to weak women.

Life is a journey worth making.

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that...

When truthful knowledge is dispensed, soul growth is accomplished every time, for all parties involved, in every situation.

When our sensitivity to feel pain decreases, so does our sensitivity to feel joy with it.

You ought to live your life with such freedom and joy that uptight Christians will doubt your salvation.

Totally present in this moment for you.

Tell me you’re truth. I’m listening.

She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a moment.

She whispers her hush lullaby in dulcet tones to be carried by the wind sending her message “My today belongs to you.