Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Where was Mother Teresa's Jesus? He was in the Bible, in the church, in her prayer, in the Eucharist, in her sisters, in the heart of everyone she met, and especially in the poorest of the poor and the lowest of the low. Jesus was in disguise in each one of them. Jesus was behind the foundation of her order. Jesus was behind all that she did.

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that Christianity is one long shout of joy!

When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.

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.

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

Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

Our happy God should be worshiped by a happy people.

My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church.

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

There is joy guaranteed for the faithful.

The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy....We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs from a heart that is in love with God. All over the world people are hungry and thirsty for God's love. We meet that hunger by spreading joy. Joy is one of the best safeguards against temptation.

Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness and spreading his fragrance of love everywhere you go. Just keep the joy of Jesus as your strength, be happy and at peace.

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

I think once you recognize the unconditional love of an Almighty, it tends to put joy in your heart. Which in my case, it did.

Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.

Religion without joy-it is no religion.

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.

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

We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.

Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.

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.'

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere