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Joy Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not…
- Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my…
- Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will be our everlasting…
- There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom,…
- See, see Who God is, see the glory of God, going up to Him out of this incomprehensible and infinite Sacrifice in which all history…
- For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man…
- Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness,…
- It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the…
- I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities…
- In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your piece…
- Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.
- To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also and above all to be…
- The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we…
- O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes…
- Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
- If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some money and you…
- This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom…
- To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher…
- We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our…
- The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in…
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