Famous Quotes & Sayings

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

C. S. Lewis

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Elbert Hubbard

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

Alexander Lowen

The path to joy leads through despair.

Don Piper

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

Andrew Solomon

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

Clayton Christensen

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

D. A. Carson

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

Clara Schumann

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

Clara Schumann

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

David Mamet

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

Dave Attell

Jesse Joyce is a great writer.

David Platt

I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.

David Platt

There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.

David Hawkins

Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.

Confucius

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Ambrose Bierce

In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.

Alice Walker

Resistance is the secret of joy!

Anne Lamott

Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.

Ann Voskamp

Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.

Ann Voskamp

Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.

Ann Voskamp

You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.

Ann Voskamp

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

Ann Voskamp

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

Albert Schweitzer

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

Albert Camus

If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.

Albert Camus

I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.

Albert Camus

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

Albert Camus

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

Anna Quindlen

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.