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“Of course, none of this can happen for us until we give our lives back to God. We cannot know the joy or the life or the freedom of heart I've described until we surrender our lives to Jesus and surrender them totally... We turn, and give ourselves body, soul, and spirit back to God, asking him to cleanse our hearts and make them new. And he does. He gives us a new heart. And he comes to dwell there, in our hearts.”

Knows Giving Heart Doe Soul Body Happens Joy Spirit Turns Courses Jesus Our Lives Asking Surrender Body Soul And Spirit

Author:John Eldredge

“Being a Christ follower means being acquainted with sorrow. We must know sorrow to be able to fully appreciate joy. Joy costs pain, but the pain is worth it. After all, the murder had to take place before the resurrection.”

Knows Mean Able Pain Joy Christ Sorrow Cost Appreciate Murder Followers Resurrection Worth It

Author:Katie Davis

“Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void.”

Mind Heart Seems Joy Waiting Loss Grief Impossible Sorrow Empty Void Heart And Mind Fill The Void

Book:Wishing You Happiness

Source: Wishing You Happiness

“Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.”

Joy Soil Hindrance

Author:Elizabeth George

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

Done Joy Idolatry

Author:John Piper

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

Joy Desire Language Praying Holy Singing

Book:Wesley's Notes on the Bible - The Old Testament: Genesis - Ruth

Source: Wesley's Notes on the Bible - The Old Testament: Genesis - Ruth

“As any good Buddhist will tell you, the only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is permanent.”

Way Facts Joy Buddhist Permanent Good Buddhist

Book:Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

Source: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

“The joy is in the journey, not the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else.”

Trying Joy Chance Seeing Journey Destination Somewhere Else Stop Trying

Book:No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running

Source: No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running

“The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.”

Ends Joy Missions Chiefs Supremacy

Author:John Piper

“My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.”

Giving Writing Reality Form Joy Ambition Music Is Importance Release Enjoyment Worthwhile My Ambition Great Joy

Author:Jim Morrison

“Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?”

Moments Pain Joy Imagination Walks Walking Doorways

Author:Martha Beck

“I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.”

Pain Joy Boys Catholic Redeemed

Author:Jim Carroll

“The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.”

Joy Loses Brother Threat Dear Ministry Dear Brother

Author:John Piper

“True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going.”

People Men World Humans Looks Pain Faces Joy Humanity Common Sorrow Ordinary Red Let Me Leaving Dare Creator Fighter Devices Passages Pale Existential Vague Ordinary People Bloodshed Passage Of Time

Author:Lu Xun

“About three in the morning as we were continuing instant in prayer, the power of God came mightily upon us, insomuch that many cried out for exceeding joy, and many fell to the ground. As soon as we recovered a little from the awe and amazement at the presence of His Majesty, we broke out with one voice, 'We praise Thee, O God, we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord.'”

Littles Joy Spirit Three Voice Prayer Lord Morning Holy Praise Thee Broke Acknowledge Instant Holy Spirit Awe Cried Continuing Majesty Amazement Power Of God

Book:The Works...

Source: The Works...

“The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.”

“The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.”

“It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.”

Source: Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

“So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.”

Giving Moving Joy Grace Determine Delight Saving Triumph Sovereign Converting Augustine Saving Grace

Author:John Piper

“Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect of business. It's the essence of happiness, the full realization of your potential for joy.”

People Important Joy Stars Friends Aspect Essence Realization Meant To Be Connecting North Star

Book:Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

Source: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

“Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.”

Matter Joy Business Friends Aspect Tasks

Book:Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

Source: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

“I feel blessed. So many men and women search and search but never find their passion, their calling, their sense of mission that would ignite their hearts and fill their lives with meaning and joy.”

Men Feels Heart Joy Passion Calling Blessing Men And Women Blessed Missions Ignite

Book:Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business

Source: Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business

“When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.”

Stills Joy Grows Struggle Refuse Fulfillment Rejects

Author:Matthew Kelly

“Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.”

Problem Joy Night Stars Shining

Book:Finding God's Path Through Your Trials: His Help for Every Difficulty You Face

Source: Finding God's Path Through Your Trials: His Help for Every Difficulty You Face

“We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.”

Ifs Important Soul Done Facts Joy Ability Honest Type Honor

Author:Matthew Fox

“An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.”

Knows Needs Humans Home Joy Jesus Existence Intimate Encounters Coming Home Transforming Human Existence True Knowledge

Author:John Eldredge

“So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.”

People Needs Light Joy My Own Tough Seasons Christmas Acknowledge Truthful Sensibility Being Truthful

Author:Sting

“I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.”

Happiness Joy Spirit Left Laughter Heartless Truth Love Revolutionary Ideas Love And Laughter

Book:Love All the People (New Edition)

Source: Love All the People (New Edition)

“Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.”

Author:Hudson Taylor

“Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.”

Love Joy Hours Pay Pure Loan Sharks

Author:David Mitchell

“A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.”

Thinking Joy Path Alive Pure Flight Joyful Brightness Pure Joy Joyful Life

Author:Martha Beck

“I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.”

Knows Joy Blessing Pure Spring Wine Soil Sunshine Vines Elementals

Book:Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business

Source: Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business

“Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.”

Source: This Momentary Marriage

“We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.”

Joy Flow Prosperity Plenty Streams Serving Unending Service Culture

Author:Charles Fillmore

“Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.”

Joy Grows Born Flower Word Of God

Book:Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“The Gospel is the news that Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, died for our sins and rose again, eternally triumphant over all his enemies, so that there is now no condemnation for those who believe, but only everlasting joy.”

Believe Joy Jesus Christ Sin Enemy News Jesus Christ Died Rose Righteous Everlasting Condemnation Triumphant

Author:John Piper

“Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.”

Needs Joy Love Is Overflow Needs Of Others

Book:Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“Whenever your heart starts to be anxious about the future, preach to your heart and say, 'Heart, who do you think you are to be afraid of the future and nullify the promise of God? No, heart, I will not exalt myself with anxiety. I will humble myself in peace and joy as I trust this precious and great promise of God - He cares for me.'”

Thinking Heart Care Joy Promise Anxiety Humble Anxious Peace And Joy

Author: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.”

Knows Soul Joy Pleasure Failing Weak Finals Delight Quests Unspeakable Pointers

Book:Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world.”

Source: An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being righteous over-much. An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospels

“He who sows, even with tears, the precious seed of faith, hope, and love, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves with him, because it is the very nature of that seed to yield a joyful harvest.”

Joy Tears And Love Seeds Yield Joyful Harvest Hope And Love Faith Hope Faith Hope And Love

Book:Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil

Source: Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil

“Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.”

Joy Gratitude Response Arise Good Will

Author:John Piper

“The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is”

Heart Joy Enjoy Views Empty Awakened Apex Glorifying God

Book:Think

Source: Think

“The purpose of the Lord's Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from feasting our souls on all that He purchased for us on the cross, especially His own fellowship.”

Soul Joy Purpose Christ Lord Crosses Fellowship Nourishment Supper Feasting Lord's Supper Strength And Hope

Author:John Piper

“The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

Giving Joy Jesus Christ Sin News Jesus Christ Forgiving Boring Satisfying Resurrection Good News Everlasting Jesus Resurrection Resurrection Of Jesus Christ

Book:Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

Source: Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

“I love to see when ya move with the rhythm; I love to see when you're dancin' from within; It gives great joy to feel such sweet togetherness, everyone doin' and they're doing their best!”

Giving Feels Moving Joy Sweet Rhythm Togetherness Great Joy

Author:Bob Marley

“The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an 'extra' that a person might grow into after he comes to faith. Until your heart has hit upon this pursuit your 'faith' cannot please God. It is not savng faith. Saving faith is the heartfelt conviction not only that Christ is reliable, but also that He is desirable.”

Heart Persons Might Joy Grows Christ Please Conviction Pursuit Saving Extras Desirable Heartfelt Optional

Author:John Piper

“Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.”

Christian Joy Religious Perfect Love Is Divine Rejoice Divine Love Peace And Joy Perfect Peace

Book:Characters and Characteristics of William Law: Nonjuror and Mystic

Source: Characters and Characteristics of William Law: Nonjuror and Mystic

“There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.”

World Inspirational Giving Joy

Author:Lord Byron

“Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.”

May Remember Joy Suffering

Author:Virgil