Top 100 Without Joy Quotes
#1. When we are separate from our knowing and from those we love and choose to live apart from the love of all peoples, we begin to die, that is to live without life, without joy.
Flo Aeveia Magdalena
#2. Service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching.
Billy Sunday
#5. There is no tears without joy; there is no joy without tears.
Shlomo Carlebach
#6. Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures.
Thomas Aquinas
#7. Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.
John Wooden
#8. There is no real and true joy of if that joy is not imbued with love. Love cannot exist without joy.
Torkom Saraydarian
#9. If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy ...
469
Hilary Mantel
#11. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. I'm off balance, not sure what's wrong. - You have misplaced joy, he said without hesitation. Without joy, we are as dead. - How do I find it again? - Find those who have it and bathe in their perfection.
Patti Smith
#13. As a child, we let go of the past easily but not as an adult. As a child, we changed one grade after another without complaints and with eagerness, but now we are changing our grade every day, but without joy and with great dismay.
Debasish Mridha
#14. Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.
Henry Beston
#15. Joy may not have any monetary value, but life is worthless without joy.
Debasish Mridha
#16. There's a strand of the data viz world that argues that everything could be a bar chart. That's possibly true but also possibly a world without joy.
Amanda Cox
#18. The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
Karl Barth
#19. There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
John Buchan
#20. Without joy in your life you are powerless.
Joyce Meyer
#21. Theoretically he knew that life is possible, may even be pleasant, without joy, without passionate griefs. But it had never occurred to him that he might have to live like that.
Willa Cather
#22. Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream
and died without joy,in silence and isolation.
David W. Earle
#23. Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Thomas Aquinas
#24. The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.
Karl Barth
#25. A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.
Charles Spurgeon
#26. Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
John Ruskin
#27. Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
Alan Jay Lerner
#28. There can be no joy in living without joy in work.
Thomas Aquinas
#29. When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
C.S. Lewis
#30. I take a cruel joy in seeing you tremble and writhe beneath my whip, and in hearing your groans and wails; I want to go on whipping without pity until you beg for mercy, until you lose your senses.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#31. A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy.
Kim Hunter
#32. Jesus is all the world to me my life, my joy, my all. He is my strength from day to day Without Him, I would fall.
T. B. Joshua
#33. Perhaps the lesson is this: Without knowledge of misery, there can be no true knowledge of joy.
Julianne MacLean
#35. The best Morning Prayer for endless peace would be, "Today I will forgive everyone for their mistakes. Today I will love everyone without judging them. Today I will be kind to everyone even if they do not deserve it. Today I will be a fountain of peace to create waves of joy around me.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.
Blaise Pascal
#37. The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.
Sara Paretsky
#38. After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!
Obafemi Awolowo
#39. The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#40. Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile.
Frederick Lenz
#41. We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy ... Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy in reunion ... without the pain of captivity, we don't experience the joy of freedom.
George Vaillant
#42. It's possible to do "Jesusy" stuff without knowing Jesus. It's possible to do good as part of some religious self-salvation project and not out of the joy of being saved.
Jared C. Wilson
#43. Bear sorrows for the sake of the Heavenly Kingdom. Without sorrows there is no salvation. On the other hand, the Kingdom of God awaits those who have patiently endured. And all the glory of the world is nothing in comparison. My joy! I implore you to acquire a peaceful spirit.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#44. There is no future for a nation without God.
There is no hope for a ruler without understanding.
The is no joy for a people without guidance.
The is no prosperity for country without wisdom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#45. Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
Thomas S. Monson
#46. If you want to speak to someone you cannot touch, see, or hear, the voice of love will transmit with or without a phone. It crosses all borders and travels through time and walls.
Julieanne O'Connor
#47. Enjoying and displaying are both crucial.
The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.
John Piper
#48. So age succeeds age, and dream succeeds dream, and of the joy of the dreamer no man knoweth but he who dreameth.
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
Olive Schreiner
#49. The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.
Joseph Conrad
#50. We have been shown how to fight hate without becoming hate ourselves. We have been given a Companion and a Friend and not just a good idea. We have been given joy in the midst of failure, and not just a way of winning or being right.
Richard Rohr
#51. I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that's not the case with all people and I don't think kids should go without experiencing that sort of joy.
Lucy Hale
#52. Without Him our daily routine would become tiresome and tedious, a drudgery rather than a joy.
Billy Graham
#53. The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth' ...
William Blake
#54. One filled with the joy preaches without preaching.
Mother Teresa
#55. Life is not without pain, but life concerns itself with how we handle that pain, or joy, or confusion or triumph. Life is more than time passing before death, it is the sum and total of all we make of it.
Michael A. Stackpole
#56. To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything
all I had to do was be.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#57. Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.
Stephenie Meyer
#58. Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.
Gautama Buddha
#59. As far as immortality went, that was obviously not any sort of good at all. Who had ever met death without some partial measure of joy?
Daniel Polansky
#60. Pain is necessary. Pain is life. Without pain there can be no joy.
Rick Yancey
#61. Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane.
Daisaku Ikeda
#62. ...joy is a thing to be shared, quickly, without hesitation.
Alison Anderson
#63. Cherish every season of life; for without coldness, there is no comfort in warmth, and without darker days, there is no joy in light.
Wes Fesler
#64. To find fulfillment, nourishment, and joy, serve others with kindness and without expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#65. I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'
Andre Dubus III
#66. As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is delight in form, and form is the key to organic life, since no living thing can exist without it, so that every work of art, including tragedy, expresses the joy of existence.
Boris Pasternak
#67. Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career
David Jason
#68. you can't fight against the universal balance. Without the despair of today we can't experience the joy of tomorrow.
Tracy Brogan
#69. Those of us with the courage to open ourselves to that much love and not fear it - who can give joy to a dying child until the very end without withdrawing to save ourselves - those are our saints. It is not the martyrs. It is never the martyrs.
Derek Miller
#70. To make it a perfect season, let us feel joy and love everyone without a reason.
Debasish Mridha
#71. Love life. Live your life with joy so you may fill the world with joy. Let no one leave your presence without feeling the joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#72. Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.
William Least Heat-Moon
#73. Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him.
Sathya Sai Baba
#74. If you can recognize and accept your pain without running away from it, you will discover that although pain is there, joy can also be there at the same time. Some
Thich Nhat Hanh
#76. Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.
Paulo Coelho
#77. He's like a child, but without a child's capacity for joy.
Eva Heller
#78. I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them.
Eleanor Farjeon
#79. When one is giving service for the advancement of humanity, when one is working without money and without price, with no hope of earthly reward, there comes a real, genuine joy into the human heart.
Heber J. Grant
#80. Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
Margaret Fuller
#81. what is God? "He's truth; He's meaning. He's my purpose and yours. With terrorists wiping people out, dealers hooking kids on meth and ecstasy, violence and cruelty; there's still love, comfort, joy, and hope. That's God. Without him, none of it makes sense.
Kristen Heitzmann
#82. There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.
Isabelle Adjani
#83. No one can steal your love, joy, and happiness without your permission.
Debasish Mridha
#84. Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer.
Sri Chinmoy
#85. Our patents' old age shocks us in the same manner that our children's growth to maturity does , but without the joy.
Azar Nafisi
#86. With great love comes occasions of pain. You can't skip the pain; without it, you would never know what a precious thing love is. You wouldn't know to hang onto it. You wouldn't know to fight for it.
You embrace the pain because the love makes it all worthwhile.
Theresa Smith
#88. Most Christians never associate joy with repentance. But repentance is actually the mother of all joy in Jesus. Without it, there can be no joy. Yet, any believer who walks in repentance will be flooded with the joy of the Lord.
David Wilkerson
#89. Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour!
Pope Francis
#90. No one ever forgot the joy of bringing to work the wholeness of mind, body, and spirit; discovering in the process that such wholeness is impossible without inseparable connection with others in the larger purpose of community effort.
Anonymous
#91. I can hardly conceive of any educated man believing in God at all without believing that God contains in Himself every perfection including eternal joy; and does not require the solar system to entertain Him like a circus.
G.K. Chesterton
#92. I can't imagine my life without my kids. Raising them has been the greatest joy in my life.
Josie Bissett
#93. It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or agreement which causes us to work together, but an extraordinary feeling of togetherness, the sense of joy in being and doing together without any thought of reward or punishment.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#94. Living lacks joy without you
dying lacks joy without you
How can I clear my mind of care for you?
I cannot manage without you.
Whatever I say, my source,
reveals my strengths and faults
So please, be gracious!
and repeat with me:
I cannot manage without you.
Rumi
#95. Not careers alone make people happy. A successful professional life and joy in work are certainly a part of it, but I couldn't be happy without a fulfilling private life.
Kristina Schroder
#96. There's a joy without canker or cark,
There's a pleasure eternally new,
'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark
Of china that's ancient and blue.
Andrew Lang
#97. Lord, help me to appreciate this woman/man without elevating her/him above you in my heart. Help me to remember that nobody can ever take your place in my life. You are my strength, my hope, my joy, and my ultimate reward. Bring me back to reality, God. Give me an undivided heart.
Joshua Harris
#98. True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return ...
Deborah Barnes
#99. From CHAOS?
Trust the imagination. Peace is knowing without need for detailed explanation. Joy is openness to possibility. Sing your humming heart free from the heat of all creation. Swim into cool whirling coloured pools. Sleep on rock of consciousness.
Jay Woodman
#100. I love the way you make me feel. I was incomplete without you.
Truth Devour
