Quotes of: Greatest-joys Keyword

Infant Joy 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.

William Blake

At first sight, joy seems to be connected with being different. When you receive a compliment or win an award, you experience the joy of not being the same as others. You are faster, smarter, more beautiful, and it is that difference that brings you ...

Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

English

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Swedish

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Pope Francis

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

Joy for the World: How Christianity Lost Its Cultural Influence and Can Begin Rebuilding It

A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God.

A Mom After God's Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children

One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

If you're not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your 'today.' The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that's yours in Chris...

Joyce Meyer

Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person - a door which you may not even have known was there. That's what I feel with my son. There's suddenly another level of love that expa...

Kyle MacLachlan

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Jeremy Bentham

Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

The greatest challenge that exists in life, in anyone’s life, is that of sustaining a child’s fascination and love for life itself while being bombarded, infiltrated and violated by every possible reason and excuse not to do so. Ultimately, nothi...

Darrell Calkins

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

William Dean Howells

One's greatest happiness is also his greatest weakness.

Joe Mari Fadrigalan

Choose joy! Joy is a choice. Joy is a witness. Joy is a therapy. Joy is a habit. If Jesus, who drank so deeply of the world's sorrow, could be filled with so much fun and laughter, then so can I.

Amazing Peace-PI

Nothing equals the joy of the drinker, except the joy of the wine in being drunk.

French

Those who have endured the scars of life, sorrows of the Heart, the grief of loss, pain of body, mind or spirit, and have fathomed the unexplainable sufferings of life have the greatest capacity to Love and live a joyful life by opening their hearts ...

Tom Hackett

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evol...

Michael Jordan

True inner joy is self-created. It does not depend on outer circumstances. A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.

The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace