“Because the same God who paints a rainbow across the sky after a rainstorm is the same One who can produce joy from our hardships.”
Source: Coffee Shop Devos: Daily Devotional Pick-Me-Ups for Teen Girls
“... I laughed simply because being this particular person in this particular world at this particular moment was cause for joy...”
Source: I'll Be Your Blue Sky
“Poor human weakness! With your words, your languages, your sounds, you speak and stammer—you define God, the heaven and the earth, chemistry and philosophy, and you cannot express, with your language, all the joy that you derive from a naked woman—or a plum pudding.”
Source: Memoirs of a Madman and November
“We stand and fight for God’s truth and with the truth we will win”
“When a problem in community arises, be the first to volunteer.”
“A wild joy follows when you realize you've been caught and are now free, when you fling open the prison door, walk outside, and gulp air and light for the first time in hours or days or weeks.
You sense who you were and what you knew before you defined things as good or bad, fat or thin, right or wrong. Before you became what you needed to be to be loved, you know the holiness of trees and water and rocks. You knew the adults were a bit mad, but you loved them anyway. You had no doubt, not one, about who you were; you had wings, and now, you have them again.”
Source: This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide
“Clothes, coffee, books, money, achievements, perfect circumstances . . . none of this can come close to bringing me the joy that comes from the Holy Spirit.”
Source: Coffee Shop Devos: Daily Devotional Pick-Me-Ups for Teen Girls
“You are the guest of joy, you cannot impose yourself.”
Source: Who Am I?: The Sacred Quest
“There is also laughter in life. Laughter is a lovely thing—to laugh without reason, to have joy in one’s heart without cause, to love without seeking anything in return. But such laughter rarely happens to us. We are burdened with sorrow; our life is a process of misery and strife, a continuous disintegration, and we almost never know what it is to love with our whole being….”
Source: The Book of Life: Daily Meditations With Krishnamurti
“One of the enemy's sneaky attacks against the joy of our salvation is to put us in the spiral of self-condemnation.”
Source: Winning Your Daily Spiritual Battles