J Quotes
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“Joy attracts more joy. Happiness attracts more happiness. Peace attracts more peace. GRATITUDE attracts more GRATITUDE. Kindness attracts more kindness. Love attracts more love.
Your job is an inside one. To change your world, all you have to do is change the way you feel inside. How easy is that?”
Source: Secret Daily Teachings
“Joy begets joy, nice begets nice. She believes with her whole heart that if you do something lovely and thoughtful for someone--especially when it's unexpected--they'll realize how good that feels, and they will start doing the same for others.”
Source: Dessert Can Save the World: Stories, Secrets, and Recipes for a Stubbornly Joyful Existence
“Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.”
“Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.”
“Joy blossoms in our hearts not as we try harder and harder to grow, but as we see more clearly the depth of our sin and understand more fully our helplessness.”
Source: Extravagant Grace: God's Glory Displayed in Our Weakness
“Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.”
“Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.”
“Joy came always after pain.”
Source: Alcools: Poems
“Joy can be a powerful touchstone, leading us to a sense of peace, purpose, strength, and comfort.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“Joy can do that. It can hurt as much as pain.”
Source: Lovely War
“Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”
“Joy can solely inhabit the Now.”
Source: Say Yes: Answering the Invitation to Live an Authentic Life
“Joy cannot be held at heel: it must be let go. Joy is a pilgrim virtue. It is a gift that walks, walks on the path of life, that walks with Jesus: preaching, proclaiming Jesus, proclaiming joy, lengthens and widens that path.”
“Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.”
Source: Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional
“Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.”
“Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows
Like the wave;
Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
Love tends life a little grace,
A few sad smiles; and then,
Both are laid in one cold place,
In the grave.”
“Joy comes form knowing God loves me, knows who I am and where I'm going ... that my future is secure as I rest in Him.”
“Joy comes from Jesus Christ.”
“Joy comes from knowing you are in the hands of a loving God who wills your ultimate good whatever the circumstance of the moment.”
Source: The Heart of the Chronicles of Narnia: Knowing God Here by Finding Him There
“Joy comes from places you least expect it. Its usually the simple things, like watching my son play basketball or going through Central Park when the blossoms are blooming.”
“Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“Joy comes from using your potential.”
“Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.”
“Joy comes through service. Most Christians are activists--they get caught up in some kind of church work. But not all of it is good. Not all of it is essential. Even missionaries find themselves tangled in lesser things than winning the lost. Unprayerful souls soon get diverted from the supreme task he appointed for them. This is why submission is also necessary.”
Source: Revival God's Way
“Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead
“Joy comes when we have the Spirit in our lives. When we have the Spirit, we rejoice in what the Savior has done for us.”
“Joy comes when you turn it over to God to deal with. This is when you will feel the true release from it's weight.”
“Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Joy connects you with your True Self.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.”
“Joy didn't settle for friendship with Malcolm. She welcomed in, making a choice, and stood by it and him for ten years.”
Source: The Romantic Agenda
“Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
“Joy doesn't ever leave, you know. It's always with you. And one day you'll find it again.”
Source: Bury Your Dead
“Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.”
Source: Hope In The Dark
“Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.”
“Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.”
“Joy' emanates only from those actions which bear fruits instantly. 'Act' today and 'result' tomorrow, such karmas can only impart pains and pleasures.”
“Joy emanates out of the abiding sense of God’s fierce love for us.”
“Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.”
“Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.”
“Joy gives you strength.
Hope gives you fortitude.
Faith gives you courage.
Love gives you power.”
“JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.”
“Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.”
“Joy has come to live with me. How can I be sad? I do so love Thy presence, which is joy within me.”
Source: The Science of the Mind
“Joy hides in the ability to see the unseen, to chose to trust when the situations seems impossible.”
“Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.”
Source: Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life
“Joy, I treasure you”
“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.”
Source: Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons