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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy.
The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.
Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'.
What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence.
We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances.
Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.
Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.
Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.
Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21).
We must try to contribute joy to the world... I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.
It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
In a sense, we are better prepared to praise God than the angels are, for angels have never known the joy of redemption.
Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.
It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.
Cooking steak is a joy because it is a terrific piece of meat that has great flavour whether it is grilled or pan-fried.
You will never experience the fullness of joy you were created to know until Jesus Christ has first place in every area.
Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.
All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.
Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.
Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.
Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.
Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy.
For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.
i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world
I do love action films and I hope I'm going to do many more and learn lots of new crafts 'cause that's the joy of movies.
For me, I took the exact right path. The cranky, independent one. And I've never looked back on it with anything but joy.
Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.
I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.
We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.
There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life.
I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.
No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.
A real friend ... exults in his friends happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.
If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?
Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.
Hope is lived when it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.
the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.
There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.
Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.
Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy.