 Happiness is untested delight. Joy is delight tested. Author: Jack Hyles |
| Back of the clouds, the sun is always shining. Author: Jack Hyles |
| There is no greater joy in the Christian life than to trust Him and need no explanation. Author: Jack Hyles |
| Sorrow does not take away, but adds to the Christian's joy. Author: Lester Roloff |
| Happiness is caused by things that happen around me, and circumstances will mar it; but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows on through the dark; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows all through persecution and opposition. Author: D.L. Moody |
| The Lord gives his people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to him. Author: D.L. Moody |
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| How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose!... You drove them from me, You who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place, You who are sweeter than all pleasure. Author: Augustine |
| There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other. Author: Augustine |
| I think beloved, it will not be hard for you to learn. The angels of heaven rejoice over Sinners that repent: saints of God, will not you and I do the same? I do not think the church rejoices enough. We all grumble enough and groan enough: but very few of us rejoice enough. When we take a large number into the church it is spoken of as a great mercy; but is the greatness of that mercy appreciated? Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: The Sympathy of the Two Worlds, Sermon, Luke 15:10. |
| When the heart is full of joy, it always allows its joy to escape. It is like the fountain in the marketplace; whenever it is full it runs away in streams, and so soon as it ceases to overflow, you may be quite sure that it has ceased to be full. The only full heart is the overflowing heart. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: The Sympathy of the Two Worlds, Sermon, Luke 15:10. |
| Do you fear that it might one day run dry, that the capacity of God to "entertain" and "thrill" your soul with Christ will soon dissipate as eventually do all earthly pleasures? Then you have not yet considered the inexhaustible resources for joy in the inexhaustible heart of God. Author: Sam Storms
Source: Pleasures Evermore, p. 164 |
| God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize. Author: Sam Storms
Source: One Thing |
