Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
The Gospel purifies and renews, it bears fruit, wherever the community of believers hears it and receives God’s grace in truth and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“...And although thus short, we shorten many ways, Living so little while we are alive; In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delight So… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Surely it is a matter of joy, that your faith in Jesus has been preserved; the Comforter that should relieve you is… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The first club that reopened in New Orleans was Caesar's, and they called me immediately and said let's do a regular night… — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the… — Marshall Berman Copy Share Image
You must be made miserable before you can know true Christian joy. Indeed the real trouble with the miserable Christian is that… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“At that moment when you feel like giving up, take a look and search deep inside in oder to understand how far… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen"… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I got really passionate about music with early Smiths and Joy Division. And New Order, Sonic Youth, Cramps...kind of right across the… — Jez Williams Copy Share Image
I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We need to make some dramatic, concrete moves to escape the materialism that seeps into our minds via diabolically clever and incessant… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
“If we cannot flap with the butterflies of “happiness,” we must bring to life the cascades of “joy,” conjuring up the spell… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Free, free! what a glorious ring to the word. Free! the bitter heart-struggle was over. Free! the soul could go out to… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
Joy is not dependent upon outward circumstances. Joy is something that we can have under all circumstances when we are sad or… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
“Smiled. The type of smile that men drive all night in a blinding rainstorm on their bike to see. The type of… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When we live to glorify God and not ourselves, we are answering the purpose for which God made us and redeemed us.… — Daniel R. Hyde Copy Share Image
People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up… — John Walsh Copy Share Image
The sun rises above the hillcrest, As does the joy of my heart; Rays of warmth and love, From her I will… — Nikislonely Copy Share Image
“The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous “turn” (for… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“And the thing about jazz, through all the business involved in practicing and improvement, it's always sweet: the improvement that you notice… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
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