Joy God Quotes:

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

- Timothy Keller

topic: Grief, Giving, Joy, Joy God, Spiritual Joy

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

- Sam Storms

source: Sam Storms (2014). “Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Enjoying God”, p.27, Tyndale House

topic: Joy, Suffering, Absence, Joy God

God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Creating, Joy, Made, Joy God

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

topic: God, Faith, Peace, Joy God, Spiritual Joy

The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.

- Julian of Norwich

source: Julian of Norwich (2013). “SHOWING OF LOVE”, p.78, Lulu.com

topic: Positive, Joy, Fullness, Joy God

Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself.

- Charles Spurgeon

source: Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 52: Sermons 2968-3019”, p.237, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

topic: Joy God

We should, to begin with, think that God leads a very interesting life, and that he is full of joy. Undoubtedly he is the most joyous being in the universe. The abundance of his love and generosity is inseparable from his infinite joy. All of the good and beautiful things from which we occasionally drink tiny droplets of soul-exhilarating joy, God continuously experiences in all their breadth and depth and richness.

- Dallas Willard

topic: Beautiful, Thinking, Interesting, Interesting Life, Joy God

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

- Francis of Assisi

source: The Origin of the Peace Prayer of St. Francis, www.franciscan-archive.org.

topic: Love, Peace, Hatred, Love And Hate, Joy God

God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy. Because of this extraordinary consciousness and this great ability for wonder and marvel, and without denying any of the terrors and horrors of the world, we also have an obligation toward joy and toward miracle and excitement.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Miracle, Joy, World, Joy God

What we call our joy, God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection. Each human being will one day realize the highest Truth. Each human being is destined to be fulfilled. It is the birthright of our soul.

- Sri Chinmoy

source: Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

topic: Perfection, Joy, Soul, Joy God

We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking for suffering, but for joy. God, living in joy, wanted to communicate it to all people. This is why he sent it down into our misery, nailing it to the cross. At that point, the cross became the way toward joy. Christianity is not at all morality and prohibitions - first and foremost it is wonder before things.

- Fabrice Hadjadj

topic: Faith, Christian, Inspiration, Joy God