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Joy Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says,…
- When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
- It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex…
- The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
- Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
- What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.
- If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why,…
- We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.
- In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we…
- If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If…
- Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.
- Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath…
- Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.
- Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life…
- I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
- Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's…
- She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with…
- The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when…
- And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the…
- Joy is the serious business of heaven.
- Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a…
- When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of…
- There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
- Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever…
- All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
More Joy Quotes
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying. — Neil Armstrong
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- To live happily is an inward power of the soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila