Top 100 Joy God Quotes
#1. to give thanks is an action and rejoice is a verb and these are not mere pulsing emotions. While I may not always feel joy, God asks me to give thanks in all things, because He knows that the feeling of joy begins in the action of thanksgiving.4
Ann Voskamp
#2. There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
Timothy Keller
#3. Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself.
Charles Spurgeon
#4. Let us never be afraid of innocent joy; God is good and what he does is well done; resign yourself to everything, even happiness; ask for the spirit of sacrifice, of detachment, of renunciation, and above all, for the spirit of joy and gratitude.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#6. While I may not always feel joy, God asks me to give thanks in all things because He knows that the feeling of joy begins in the action of thanksgiving.
Ann Voskamp
#7. God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
Pope John Paul II
#8. What we call our joy, God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection. Each human being will one day realize the highest Truth. Each human being is destined to be fulfilled. It is the birthright of our soul.
Sri Chinmoy
#9. If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.
T. B. Joshua
#10. If there is so much blessing and joy even in a single encounter of brother with brother, how inexhaustible are the riches that open up for those who by God's will are privileged to live in the daily fellowship of life with other Christians!
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#11. Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
Simone Weil
#12. God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.
Sam Storms
#13. Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death, imprisoned - that's what you do for God.
Daniel Everett
#14. When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit.
Meister Eckhart
#15. In my long life I have found peace, joy, and happiness beyond my fondest hopes and dreams. One of the supreme benedictions of my life has been my marriage to an elect daughter of God. I love her with all my heart and soul.
James E. Faust
#16. You know that feeling just before you're going to laugh? That thing where you get all bubbled up? ... It's like a bubble of laughter, but it hasn't come out yet ... ?
That's what God feels like.
It's a feeling of joy and love and well-being.
Goldie Hawn
#17. Love the animals: God gave them the rudiments of thought and an untroubled joy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#18. You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.
Socrates
#19. I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
Erica Jong
#20. God is more interested in securing my forever happiness than my temporary happiness.
Paula Hendricks
#21. Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
Henri Matisse
#22. To all the fallen: may they be young forever in heaven. To all the wounded: may they have strength and heal. To all the bereaved: may they feel joy again. And please God," he added quietly, "may there one day be an end to war.
Jo Beverley
#23. Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimism.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#24. the more a Christian intentionally cultivates the joy of God in daily life, the more deeply embedded the joy of God will become in American civilization, through him.
Greg Forster
#25. Suffering together builds togetherness, and if togetherness is more important for us and for our joy than freedom from suffering is, then God is good to allow this suffering.
Peter Kreeft
#26. See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#27. Well, God does not mean for us to be passive. He means for us to fight the fight of faith - the fight for joy. And the central strategy is to preach the gospel to yourself. This is war. Satan is preaching for sure. If we remain passive, we surrender the field to him.
John Piper
#28. I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, "He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people."
Tony Robbins
#29. Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day.
Charlotte Bronte
#30. In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.
John Piper
#31. Jesus's solution to our love affair with sin is that we be mastered by joy in a new reality, namely, God.
John Piper
#33. Having joy in God not because of circumstances but despite circumstances is what makes God look great - and it's a true joy that comes from within.
Jefferson Bethke
#34. The greatest joy is in giving; after all, God gave Christ for us.
Ashley Ormon
#35. Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.
E.P. Roe
#36. The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with ... greater joy, peace, and happiness.
Jimmy Carter
#37. I believe that God is (and must be) a transcendent presence in any worthy work of art.
Joy Williams
#38. Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
Henry Ward Beecher
#39. Our ceaseless craving for more, though it can kill us when unredeemed, may be a hint of the joy that we were made for when the soul finds its center in God.
John Ortberg
#40. The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others.
Pope Francis
#41. Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing, and joy of his children.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#42. God is glorified not by calling strong women but by giving His strength to weak women.
Lydia Brownback
#43. What is most decisive is God's Joy Project is not that we fully grasp it, but that our sovereign God fully grasps us.
Tony Reinke
#44. We don't like death. We'd rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas, our expectations, our hopes is necessary to find deep joy that comes when we fully relinquish ourselves to the gospel.
Mary E. DeMuth
#45. Joy in the Holy spirit is one of the signs of the kingdom of God
Sunday Adelaja
#46. Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.
Joy Davidman
#47. I don't see how sucking the joy out of every aspect of life can be pleasing to anybody's God
Kim Edwards
#48. Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.
Sue Monk Kidd
#49. Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.
Rabindranath Tagore
#50. Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.
Francis Of Assisi
#51. God gives me all the willingness I need today to sit quietly and listen.
from Time for Joy
Ruth Fishel
#52. The prayer that is heard is not of many words ... but of Oneness
Vivian Amis
#53. God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them.
Josie Loren
#54. When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.
Margaret Feinberg
#55. Joy comes when you turn it over to God to deal with. This is when you will feel the true release from it's weight.
Shannon L. Alder
#56. Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but mankind is moved to devotion, virtue, joy, and sorrow.
Christoph Wolff
#57. We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living ... I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.
Angela Thomas
#58. The Christian Sunday should be a festival, gathering up all the life of the week and offering it to God in worship and then spending the day in a way which most truly promotes joy and happiness and refreshment for oneself and for other people.
Olive Wyon
#59. Devote yourself to getting to know Him better, then you will grow in that righteousness which is in you, in peace, in joy and God will look after other people and solve their problems for them.
Sunday Adelaja
#60. Neither a problem nor a technicality, the triune being of God is the vital oxygen of Christian life and joy.
Michael Reeves
#61. Only if we believe God can we maintain joy in the midst of hardship.
R.C. Sproul
#62. We try to find something to fill our void. But it is only God who can fill the void.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#63. We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.
Barbara Johnson
#64. We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
John Calvin
#65. God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.
Timothy Keller
#67. God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.
Richard Sibbes
#68. I am a spiritual being. After this body is dead, my spirit will soar. I refuse to let what will rot, rule the eternal. I choose self-control. I will be drunk only by joy. I will be impassioned only by my faith. I will be influenced only by God. I will be taught only by Christ. I choose self-control.
Max Lucado
#69. Lord God, You are the Hound of heaven who hunts the lost down and captures us with grace. Today, make me the hound of now who hunts for glory and captures joy with just that one word: Thanks.
Ann Voskamp
#70. The truth of the matter is that we've all got cracks in our spirits, and we have to remember they're only there because we need them ... Otherwise, how could God's grace filter in deep enough to give us the joy and peace we're all searching for in this world. It couldn't, plain and simple.
Delia Parr
#71. God uses means to awaken joy in himself,
John Piper
#73. Here in the sub-Sahara, it seemed that the weaker people were, the harder they had to lean on God - and the harder they leaned on him, the greater their joy.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#74. The truth is tucked inside of me, it is what I want the world to see. But do youy see it in me, oh just let it all be. I am happy being me.
Cindy M. Miller
#75. God desires to be Lord over you. Not Lord around your schedule. Until you learn to schedule your life around Him you will never know Him. The Lord is inviting His last day children to rediscover the joy of His presence.
Apostle Dynamique
#76. joy and sorrow, when they are both lived in God, signify fruitfulness for the apostolate.
Adrienne Von Speyr
#77. Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.
Henri Nouwen
#78. There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud.
Shannon L. Alder
#79. Being molded into something God wants you to be is such a moving force that your whole personality would change. Joy, peace, strength, compassion, the light, the road ... all would touch your life like a moving orchestra. Breathing life into your soul.
Phil Mitchell
#80. God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.
John Piper
#81. Always re-invent yourself. Always try new things; new food, new hobbies, meet new people. That will keep your life from becoming stagnant and boring. And you will have a lot more fun!
Lisa Bedrick
#82. The mercy of God demands to be known and recognized and set apart from everything else and praised and adored in joy.
Thomas Merton
#84. Enjoy the joy of being enjoyed by God.
Sam Storms
#85. When miracles happen, hope destroys hopelessness, joy overcomes pain, love conquers hate, and faith finds God in the midst of it all.
Cherie Hill
#86. A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.
Elisabeth Elliot
#87. Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.
Chip Ingram
#88. O rose! the sweetest blossom,
Of spring the fairest flower,
O rose! the joy of heaven.
The god of love, with roses
His yellow locks adorning,
Dances with the hours and graces.
James Gates Percival
#89. When the gospel is understood primarily in terms of entrance rather than joyous participation, it can actually serve to cut people off from the explosive, liberating experience of the God who is an endless giving circle of joy and creativity.
Rob Bell
#90. I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.
David Lloyd-Jones
#92. The key is love, the action is service, and the joy is knowing the grandeur that is God in us and in everything.
Dorothy Maclean
#93. You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.
Barbara Johnson
#94. Even beautiful things such as forgiveness, clear conscience, joy in life, and adoption into the family of God are all benefits of being a Christian, but not the ultimate goal.
Jefferson Bethke
#96. Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy hit him like a lightning-bolt.
Mary Renault
#97. The path that God has paved for you will take you to places beyond your imagination and capabilities. Stay on this path and you will experience the joy of true success.
Farshad Asl
#98. Prayer is the spontaneous response of the believing heart to God. Those truly transformed by Jesus Christ find themselves lost in wonder and joy of communion with Him. Prayer is as natural for the Christian as breathing
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#99. Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.
Oswald Chambers
#100. Inner joy and peace are from the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22). If I'm disappointed in my human husband, it is because I have dis - as in wrongly - appointed him to God's position in my mind. That's just all kinds of wrong.
Megan Tippy-Clansen
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