Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Piper

If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.

John Wayne

Let's say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person's life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I'd just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world.

John Wesley

Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.

John Sterling

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

John Steinbeck

Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards

John Steinbeck

And her joy was nearly like sorrow.

John Scofield

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

John Piper

To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.

Friedrich Schiller

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

Friedrich Schiller

Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms...

Friedrich Schiller

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

Jon Foreman

If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.

Joko Beck

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.

Joko Beck

We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life...

Ludwig van Beethoven

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

M. Scott Peck

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

Luise Rainer

I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

John Bingham

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

Mavis Staples

Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

May Sarton

So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.

May Sarton

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

Matthew Henry

JOY in the LORD puts our mouths out of taste for the pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.

Matthew Henry

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

Matthew Henry

May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.

Maura Tierney

I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.

Matthew Ashford

For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

Maya Angelou

The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

Maria Montessori

Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

Maria Montessori

Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

James Hunter

There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs.

John Piper

We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.

John Piper

God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.