Samuel Rutherford Quotes

There are other kinds of joy found in other places in the world, but there is no place where you can find Christian joy except in Christ.

As a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything. So I come into classroom on fire. I'm on fire for learning. I'm on fire for education, a paideia in the deepest sense of paideia, trying to get young people to shift from the superficial to the substantial, the shift from the bling-bling to letting freedom reign in their minds and hearts and souls.

And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.

If only everyone could experience the joy of being Christian, being loved by God Who gave His Son for us!

The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian.' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed 'that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.'

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

The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.

To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.

Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.

The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.

The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.

May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives.

A Christian is one who is invited... to join in the feast, to the joy of being saved, to the joy of being redeemed, to the joy of sharing life with Christ. This is a joy! You are called to a party!

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!

You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never known - if you will give your life to him.

To the extent that we nourish ourselves on Christ and are in love with him, we feel within us the incentive to bring others to him: Indeed, we cannot keep the joy of the faith to ourselves; we must pass it on.

We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.

The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more.

The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.

Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.

For me, everything is about Jesus and Father and the Holy Spirit, and relationships, and life is an adventure of faith lived one day at a time. Any aspirations, visions and dreams died a long time ago and I have absolutely no interest in resurrecting them (they would stink by now anyway). I have finally figured out that I have nothing to lose by living a life of faith. I know more joy every minute of every day than seems appropriate, but I love the wastefulness of my Father's grace and presence. For me, everything in my life that matters, is perfect!

If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere.