Quotes about Joy

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 springs deep down inside. And that spring never runs dry, no matter what happens. Only Jesus gives that joy. He had joy, singing its music within, even under the shadow of the cross.
S.D. Gordon

Happiness is untested delight. Joy is delight tested.
Jack Hyles

When our lives are filled with peace, faith and joy, people will want to know what we have.
David Jeremiah

Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.
A. B. Simpson

The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.'
Elisabeth Elliot

If the life of Christ is flowing through us, the water from the Rock turning the wheel, as it flows into the heart, it will fill us with joy; and if so, we cannot contain it, it must flow out.
G.V. Wigram

The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.
Francis Chan

The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies and put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.
Matthew Henry

The Lord gives his people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to him.
Dwight L. Moody

 It is His joy that remains in us that makes our joy full.
A. B. Simpson

 I was delivered from the burden that had so heavily suppressed me. The spirit of mourning was taken from me, and I knew what it was to truly rejoice in God my Savior.
George Whitefield

Be good; keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
Thomas Merton