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If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.
Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.
it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!
Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness.
Eventually, you have to stop picking a fight with your true nature and decide to seek the joy that underlies it all.
'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.
Well, you need to hear about money, because you ain't gonna have no love and joy and peace until you get some money!
Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
Embracing conflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and fascination.
Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.
Focus only on things you love, feel love, and you will experience that love and joy coming back to you - multiplied!
The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others.
Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.
The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
There is no joy involved in climbing mountains, there is simply the challenge, the self-invented challenge, the play.
Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.
The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.
I could never have gone to Africa another way and had the same experience. It was my job and my joy at the same time.
Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service.
Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.
Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be.
I really like sardonicism and wit. I love the writing of Joy Williams and Lorrie Moore. I like Tina Fey, Amy Schumer.
Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!
When you feel victimized or sad, just allow yourself to cry; you'll feel better and have more room to experience joy.
A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.
the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.
Stay with me. I’ll show you things that’ll make you laugh in delight, scream in passion, cry for the sheer joy of it.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.
Basketball has brought me a lot of joy, brought me a lot of good things. Just that side of it has really affected me.
Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.
When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.
Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.
Acting is one of the two things that give me the most joy. The other thing is travelling. Nothing else matters to me.
If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest joy.
We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.
When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.
Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
Every single day I want you to be happy and full of joy, just like you make me happy by just passing through my mind.
Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.