Sacred Joy Quotes

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

I don't think it's that hard [to lead a Christian life]. To me it's fun. We have joy and happiness.

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.

God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.

When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.

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.

The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian is a holy joy; the happiness of the Christian is a serious happiness. ... it is a solemn joy, it is a holy joy, it is a serious happiness; so that, though he is grave and sober-minded and serious, he is never cold and prohibitive.

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.

Religion without joy-it is no religion.

Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call 'the epiphanies of infancy' - the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling complete and at one with everything - yet having no words or no need to say it but instead to just assimilate the feeling.

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.