Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Studd

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

Charles Spurgeon

Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

Charles Spurgeon

Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

Charles Spurgeon

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

Charles Spurgeon

Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.

Charles Spurgeon

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

Al Pacino

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.

Chin-Ning Chu

Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.

Cesare Pavese

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

William Shakespeare

Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.

Charles Kuralt

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

Bob Newhart

I don't want to find the secret. I'm afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret.

Bernie Mac

I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.

Edith Wharton

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

Deepak Chopra

True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.

Deepak Chopra

There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love.

Deepak Chopra

Being joyful is our natural state of being.

Deepak Chopra

When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.

Edward Dyer

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Capacity for joy Admits temptation.

Bertolt Brecht

What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

Bertrand Russell

If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.

C. S. Lewis

Every joy is beyond all others.

C. S. Lewis

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.

C. S. Lewis

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.

Agnes Repplier

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

Charles de Lint

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

Charisma Carpenter

I've had the joy of working on critically acclaimed shows, but unfortunately, those shows aren't always in the Golden Globe or Emmy categories, which bums me out because they are really good, quality shows.

Bill Maher

I have such disdain for anybody who gets joy out of blowing the stuffing out of a little woodland creature, that I don't really care if any of them gets shot.

Beth Moore

He (God) is determined to pursue you because He knows the greatest joy in your life will come from His lan for you.

Bernard of Clairvaux

There is no greater misery than false joys.