Hosea Ballou Quotes

I want to say one word to you and this word is “Joy”. Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women religious, young people, there is joy, there is always joy!

I'm joyful in my religious belief.

Be happy! and meditation will follow. Be happy, and religion will follow. Happiness is a basic condition. People become religious only when they are unhappy - then their religion is pseudo. Try to understand why you are unhappy.

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

The soul that loves God has its rest in God and in God alone. In all the paths that men walk in in the world, they do not attain peace until they draw nigh to hope in God.

Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy let us pray.

Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul.

Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.

the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.

Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.

Life passes. Eternity comes to meet us with great strides. Soon we shall be living with the very life of Jesus. Having drunk deep at the source of all bitterness, we shall be deified in the very source of all joys, of all delights.

The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.

When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest.