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“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
― Rumi

“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“My soul doth magnify the Lord,
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.”
― Anonymous

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
― Tagore

“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
― Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła)

“Scatter joy!”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You ought to live your life with such freedom and joy that uptight Christians will doubt your salvation.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom: The Radical Nature of the Gospel

“If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship.”
― Steve Brown, Approaching God: Accepting the Invitation to Stand in the Presence of God

“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot”
― St. Augustine of Hippo

“There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.”
― Oswald Chambers

“Joy is strength.”
― Mother Teresa

“The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.”
― Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.”
― Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

“Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.”
― Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“Grant that I may radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace
to all those around me
and all those in my thoughts
this day and ever more.”
― Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has its spring deep down inside. And that spring never runs dry, no matter what happens. Only Jesus gives that joy.”
― Samuel Gordon

“After the rain, the sun will reappear.
There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.”
― Walt Disney Company

“I have no name
I am but two days old.-
What shall I call thee?
I happy am
Joy is my name,-
Sweet joy befell thee!

Pretty joy!
Sweet joy but two days old.
Sweet joy I call thee:
Thou dost smile.
I sing the while
Sweet joy befell thee.

- "Infant Joy”
― William Blake, The Complete Poems

“God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.”
― Julian of Norwich

“If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.”
― Julian of Norwich

“... so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperience in the ways of love we spend so much time on petition. I saw that it is indeed more worthy of God and more truly pleasing to him that through his goodness we should pray with full confidence, and by his grace cling to him with real understanding and unshakeable love, than that we should go on making as many petitions as our souls are capable of.”
― Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

“Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.”
― Julian of Norwich

“...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.”
― Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
― Cornel West

“You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.”
― Cornel West

“You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth”
― Cornell West

“Protest is not unbiblical; it is a manifestation of our analysis of the human condition in light of God’s own word and vision for the future.”
― Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope