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.

listen thoughtfullysounds of laughtergaiety and melancholy galore

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...

If I were to measure my successes by the mistakes that I have made & only focus on the lessons that were learned along the way, then that in itself overall, would be a positive...

We have the keys to open the Heavens door; Bible reading and prayer.

Drink freely the wine life offers you and don’t worry how much you spill.

Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over...

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

The greatest measure of success is the amount of joy you experience.

A One-Liner used at the right time and at the right place will create a greater impact than any story ever told in the world.

Some of you say, ‘Joy is greater thar sorrow,’ and others say, ‘Nay, sorrow is the greater.’But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits, alone with you at your...

My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and light these contain.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

It’s an ongoing joy being a dad.

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

If you retain the joyous aftereffects of meditation throughout the day, or part of the day, you will see that this joy will correctly guide you in everything. Saints are guided by this joy, in...

It may be difficult, but there will be times we need to pick up our brooms and do some spiritual house cleaning. It is through this process that we find our true relationships, our true...

There is great power in our words, because theyare thoughts to which we have given additional energy by speaking them aloud so another person can know them.

To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the sound of joy.

I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don’t want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection...

The Phoenix burns and rebirths from the ashes in the absence of need for witness, acceptance, understanding or belief.

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.

REPENT:FOR THE KINGDOM OF GODIS AT HANDThe whole message of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ are: Repent: For the Kingdom of God is at hand.But this message has been terrible misunderstood by the priests...