Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Madeleine Albright

I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.

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.

Bob Fosse

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

Charles Kuralt

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

Work life has taken over normal life, yet it's been stripped of humor, joy and pleasure.

Billy Sunday

If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere

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.

Gene Robinson

What a joy it is to have you here,

A people who souls are so little tuned to joy

the joy of being in space, weightlessness and so on.

The joy of being in congressional leadership and never having a competitive race is it lets you keep stuffing money in the bank.

The joy of being a battleground state is that you get presidential hopefuls in 2006.

The joy is in the doing, not the done.