Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods!
—Plato
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. – C.S. Lewis
Beauty and battle—both are of Thee.
Lighten mine eyes till I joyfully see
Beauty in all that Thou givest to me,
Lord of the light.
—Amy Carmichael
Let God be in all your thoughts, and ye will be men indeed. Let him be your God and your All,—the desire of your eyes, the joy of your heart, and your portion for ever.
—John Wesley
Freely give means to give lavishly. What do I need today? Strength? Peace? Patience? Heavenly joy? Industry? Good temper? Power to help others? Inward contentment? Courage? Whatever it be, my God will lavish it upon me.
—Amy Carmichael
Some of us are like Peter, Silver and gold have I none. But we have other things: for example, books. Am I sharing my books and what I read in them? Am I sharing every joy I can?
—Amy Carmichael
There is a tremendously uplifting power in joy. Perhaps that is why there is so much about it in the Bible.
—Amy Carmichael
O let me press forward with renewed vigour, laying aside every weight, etc. and growing in heavenly mindedness and love and joy and every Christian grace.
—William Wilberforce
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
—Cicero
The man who is willing to settle for barren life will never experience the joy of the Holy Spirit or the deep satisfaction of fruitful living
—AW Tozer
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
—Nikolai Gogol
Gratitude and joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.
—Herman Bavinck
At the creation the morning stars sang, and all the children of God shouted with joy. At the birth of Christ a multitude of heavenly hosts raised a song of jubilation to God’s good pleasure.
—Herman Bavinck
The gospel is simply a joyful message; not an obligation but a promise; not a duty but a gift.
—Herman Bavinck
Knowing God in Christ brings with it eternal life, imperturbable joy, and heavenly blessedness. These are not merely effects, but the knowing of God is itself immediately a new, eternal, and blessed life.
—Herman Bavinck
Sanctification in myself, and the ingathering of God’s elect, was all my desire; and the hope of its accomplishment, all my joy.
—David Brainerd
My soul breathed after God,—‘When shall I come to God, even to God, my exceeding joy?’ Oh for his blessed likeness!
—David Brainerd
There is only one ground upon which man may meet God with joy and not with despair. That ground is the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
—R. A. Torrey
…the Christian is assured that though he may be a person who is physically disposed to be thoroughly alarmed, he may experience not only strength but positive joy in the midst of danger.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
One of the best and purest forms of joy is rest after labor.
—Leo Tolstoy
“Thus may the Master smile on you, my dearly-beloved, and make you to be such eminent saints that he can have great joy in you; for, then, his joy shall remain in you, and your joy shall be full.”
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
—Charles Dickens
“When a man is forgiven by God, and knows that he is saved, the joy of the Lord enters his soul, and he says, You may take all other joys, and do what you like with them. I have my God, my Saviour, and I want no more.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“If you rejoice with Christ’s joy to-day, you will have the same cause for rejoicing to-morrow, and for ever, and for evermore, for he says that his joy shall remain in you.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“It was the joy of Christ that he should finish the work which his Father gave him to do; and he has finished it, and therefore he is glad; will not you also rejoice in his finished work?”
– Charles Spurgeon
Just as all the water will flow out of a barrel if there’s so much as one little hole in it, so all the joy of love will drain out of your soul if in your soul there is enmity toward so much as a single person.
—Leo Tolstoy
“The Father himself loveth you, declares Christ; so, surely, you share Christ’s joy, and that fact should make your own joy full.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“What greater joy can a man have than to feel that he is pleasing Christ?”
– Charles Spurgeon
“[…]the precepts of the Lord Jesus are tender and gracious, and bring us joy and life.”
– Charles Spurgeon