Joy Quote by William Sloane Coffin

“I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Pleasure is no longer empty and pain is no longer deadly when God is the transcending reason for all of it.”

— Sara Daigle

Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.

— Baal Shem Tov

The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.

— Lady Jane Grey

“Maybe a certain degree of deprivation was necessary to the experience of pleasure, just as suffering was an integral part of joy.”

— Claire Holden Rothman

“Point your children to God as the fountain of deepest pleasure. In his presence are eternal pleasures—the greatest beauty, the highest value, the deepest…

— Tedd Tripp

“But you're wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from human relationships. God's placed it all around us. It's in…

— Into The Wild

“The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.”

— Thomas Merton

“I don't believe in guilty pleasures. Pleasure is pleasure, enjoy!”

— Annie Wood

“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The only way to joy is to interpret our circumstances by God's Word rather than to judge God by our circumstances.”

— Lydia Brownback

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

— Benjamin Franklin