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“God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.”

Soul Matter God Body Light Joy Grief Shining Gods Will Candle

Book:The Works of the Reverend Richard Sibbs, D.D. Late Master of Catharine-Hall in the University of Oxford, and Preacher of Gray's Inn, London: To which is Prefixed, a Short Memoir of the Author's Life

Source: The Works of the Reverend Richard Sibbs, D.D. Late Master of Catharine-Hall in the University of Oxford, and Preacher of Gray's Inn, London: To which is Prefixed, a Short Memoir of the Author's Life

“The human life form vibrates at a certain rate, but all vibratory rates are not suitable for human life. So it's very necessary to meditate on higher octave energy, on the clear light, on joy, on happiness.”

Humans Light Form Joy Certain Energy Clear Buddhism Balance Higher Rate Human Life Suitable Vibrate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by Him, finally become spiritual themselves, and their grace is sent forth to others. From this comes knowledge of the future, understanding of mysteries, apprehension of hidden things, distribution of wonderful gifts, heavenly citizenship, a place in the choir of angels, endless joy in the presence of God, becoming like God, and, the highest of all desires, becoming God.”

“So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.”

“Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.”

Source: The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...

“Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy, pure ecstasy, joy beyond understanding, bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind's philosophical ranging, light beyond any light in this world - The substance and the essence of all existence is this light, the transcendental light.”

World Mind Dream Light Joy Understanding Existence This World Pure Essence Philosophical Substance Bliss Dry Ecstasy Transcendental Dullness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I praise the God of grace; I trust His truth and might; He calls me His, I call Him mine. My God, my joy and light”

Light Might Joy Grace Mines Praise Call Me

Book:Hymns of Faith and Hope: Second Series

Source: Hymns of Faith and Hope: Second Series

“Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by opening oneself to the light and only by sincerely confessing one's sins to God that one finds true peace and true joy. It is therefore important to receive the Sacrament of Penance regularly, especially during Lent, in order to receive the Lord's forgiveness and to intensify our process of conversion.”

Men Important Sometimes Light Joy Order Process Sin Lord Darkness Men And Women Oneself Conversion Opening Nevertheless Sacraments Sincerely Penance Confessing True Joy True Peace

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.”

Men Mind Soul Light Happiness Joy Turns Pay Trouble Demand Each Day Tolls Happy Man

Author:Edgar Guest

“And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief.”

Light Joy Grief Sweet Judgment Mercy Relief Compensation Thorns Gloom

Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.”

Heart Soul Light Joy Strong Darkness Sun Sorrow Grateful Shining Calm Arise Positive Attitude Be Grateful Everlasting Lamps Heart And Soul Being Strong Light And Dark Baha I

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.”

Knows Looks Light Joy Hitting Sparkle

Book:Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy

Source: Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy

“The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare Bright pilgrim past our ken, should see Hints of Reality.”

Source: The canticle of the rose: poems: 1917-1949

“We praise Thee, Lord, of all the earth, for love and joy, for light and mirth, for every charm of sense and right, and blessings boundless as Thy might.... But most we praise the love that gave thine own dear Son to seek and save, for joy all other joys excelling, for purest light and life indwelling.”

Light Might Earth Joy Jesus Lord Son Blessing Praise Dear Thee Charm Boundless Mirth

Author:Cecil Frances Alexander

“The songwriting style, to me, is superior. There was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.”

Giving Matter Light Joy Certain Song Opportunity Style Listening Amount Balance Equal Superiors Songwriting Buddy Equal Opportunity Hollies Writing Style

Author:M. Ward

“[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will for the light. In all but a few maniacs the satisfaction of the will for darkness was at all times countered by a revulsion which the unhappy spirit either dared not confess even to itself, or else rejected as cowardly and evil.”

Light Joy Spirit Evil Darkness Satisfaction Unhappy All Time Lasting Rejected Cowardly Perversion Maniacs Revulsion

Book:Darkness and the light

Source: Darkness and the light

“Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.”

Wells Two Light Joy Sides Dark Balance Sorrow Two Sides Light And Dark Joys And Sorrows Well Rounded

Author:JoAnn Ross

“Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.”

Mind Light Joy Artist Emotion Creativity Sadness Shadow Lays Colour Canvas Masterpiece Pigment Chiaroscuro

Book:The Illustrated Book of Tea

Source: The Illustrated Book of Tea

“I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.”

Men Home Light Joy Night Hate Darkness Doors Ought All Things Crosses Window I Hate Murder Sunshine Rays Cheerfulness Joy Of Life Rays Of Light

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is short, the joy is long.”

Long Light Joy Night Strong Dark Grief Thee

Author:Thomas Cogswell Upham

“No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!”

Men Want Light Running Joy Liberty Lovers Thousand Prove Claims Driven Debate Sheep Pope Want U Peasants Shouting Prove It

Author:Morris West

“There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.”

May Light Joy Night Dark Grief Evening Guests Compensation Sunny

Author:William C. Bryant

“A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light, And it looks flourishing--a little while-- 'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.”

Knows Looks Littles Light Young Joy Sun Gone Promise Fruit Flourishing Vicissitudes

Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light! Our light returns.”

Light Earth Moving Joy Spirit Return Warm Thee Awake

Book:The Poetical Works of John Sterling

Source: The Poetical Works of John Sterling

“The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor.”

Persons Humor Light Joy

Book:Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

“... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.”

Light Joy Habit Everyday Surface Dust Perpetual Freshness Beneath The Surface Opal

Author:Freya Stark

“I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul.”

World Soul Light Joy Religion Church Race Gold And Love Claims Grain Creeds Flood Germs Aisle Light And Love

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.”

Light Joy Loss Sorrow Shadow Casting Compensation Joys And Sorrows

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“service is the joy-giving factor in daily life. It is as spontaneous as light, as subtle as electricity, as exhilarating as sunshine. It exists primarily as a spiritual attitude. It lies in the constant recognition of the brotherhood of humanity toward each and all with whom we come in contact.”

Giving Light Spiritual Joy Lying Humanity Attitude Constant Contact Factors Recognition Subtle Sunshine Daily Life Brotherhood Electricity Spontaneous Exhilarating

Book:The World Beautiful

Source: The World Beautiful

“I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs are "light," just that when they're performed with the correct commitment it's a source of real pleasure, for me anyway.”

Real Light Joy Song Pleasure Audience Source Commitment Pulling Strands

Author:Michael Gira

“My own lov'd light, That very soft and solemn spirit worships, That lovers love so well--strange joy is thine, Whose influence o'er all tides of soul hath power, Who lend'st thy light to rapture and despair; The glow of hope and wan hue of sick fancy Alike reflect thy rays: alike thou lightest The path of meeting or of parting love-- Alike on mingling or on breaking hearts Thou smil'st in throned beauty!”

Wells Heart Soul Light Joy Spirit My Own Path Influence Strange Lovers Moon Despair Worship Sick Meetings Fancy Rays Tides Solemn Parting Rapture Heart Break Hue Mingling Lovers Love

Author:Charles Robert Maturin