Thomas S. Monson Quotes

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.

At this and every season, our Savior invites us to join with HIM and others to offer the priceless gift of JOY.

Without Christ there would be no Christmas and without Christ there can be no fulness of JOY

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.

Laughter is God's blessing.

For me personally, joy comes from focusing on Jesus, others, and yourself.

Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.

Dear young people, Jesus gives us life, life in abundance. If we are close to him we will have joy in our hearts and a smile on our face.

Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.

Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It's actually something deeper than mere happiness: it's joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as 'that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.

Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.

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

... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.

The gospel is a thing of joy. It provides us with a reason for gladness. Of course there are times of sorrow. Of course there are hours of concern and anxiety. We all worry. But the Lord has told us to lift our hearts and rejoice. I see so many people...who seem never to see the sunshine, but who constantly walk with storms under cloudy skies. Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.

If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.

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

Laughter is eternity if joy is real.

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 coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give.

For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.

Let us draw from the crib the joy and deep peace that Jesus comes to bring to the world.

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