Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

“When we walk with God, we can know that pain is always on the short leash of love.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed. They come…

— Anna White

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

— Euripides

The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy…

— Martin Luther

The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. Whereas the groanings of the righteous are…

— Ebenezer Erskine

Energy falls just short of being joy.

— Mason Cooley

The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden…

— Daniel K Judd

Now, we are agreed, I and my destinies. The total world, Above, below, whate'er is seen or known, And all that men, and all…

— Hartley Coleridge

Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and…

— Friedrich Schiller

We have a commitment to serve our Lord. We have an assurance that the cause is just and worthy. But, above all, we have…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound…

— Francis Pharcellus Church

Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative…

— Lawren Harris

May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments.…

— L. Tom Perry

It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it…

— Novalis

We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

— Maynard James Keenan