Peter Kreeft Quotes

Joy is a sure sign of the presence of God in your life.

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

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

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.

The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.

We have God's joy in our blood.

Each encounter with Jesus fills us with joy, with that deep joy which only God can give.

Joy has come to live with me. How can I be sad? I do so love Thy presence, which is joy within me.

The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.

All of heaven we have below.

Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

In that Holy Place where you tell Him everything and he understands; there are angels who stand in wait to hear his every command. How may they serve you and increase your joy?

God will give you strength when you think you can’t go on. He will give you joy when you should be discouraged. He can make a way when it looks impossible.

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.'

Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.

It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight.

No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.

Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.

Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time. Joy, though, is something else. It’s not a choice, not a response to some result, it is a constant. Joy is “the feeling we have from doing what we are fashioned to do,” no matter the outcome.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.

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