Joy
Isaiah 12:3
With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
From Henry Montague, Earl of Manchester:
This I am sure of, all man’s happiness here is his holiness, and his holiness shall hereafter be his happiness.
From Maeterelinck:
Happiness is a plant that thrives far more readily in moral than in intellectual life.
From Barbour:
What is joy? Love awake and alive, fully conscious of herself. If love be the heart’s first beat, joy is its counter beat. If love be the outflow of the heart, joy is the inflow, the flowing back of the loving heart. The rise of temperature which love brings, the heightened being--the effervescence--that is joy.
From R. Browning:
God’s eternity of joy.
From Matthew Arnold:
Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men’s spirits are indissolubly held.
From Francis Paget:
“Caritas,” which is in fact nothing else but “the energy and representative of the Spirit in our hearts,” expands and asserts itself, and makes its power to be known by its fruits of love, joy, peace and pity in the character of man. Mark, then how joy springs out at once as the unfailing token of the Holy Spirit’s presence, the first sign that He is having His own way with a man’s heart.
Isaiah 12:3
With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
From Henry Montague, Earl of Manchester:
This I am sure of, all man’s happiness here is his holiness, and his holiness shall hereafter be his happiness.
From Maeterelinck:
Happiness is a plant that thrives far more readily in moral than in intellectual life.
From Barbour:
What is joy? Love awake and alive, fully conscious of herself. If love be the heart’s first beat, joy is its counter beat. If love be the outflow of the heart, joy is the inflow, the flowing back of the loving heart. The rise of temperature which love brings, the heightened being--the effervescence--that is joy.
From R. Browning:
God’s eternity of joy.
From Matthew Arnold:
Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men’s spirits are indissolubly held.
From Francis Paget:
“Caritas,” which is in fact nothing else but “the energy and representative of the Spirit in our hearts,” expands and asserts itself, and makes its power to be known by its fruits of love, joy, peace and pity in the character of man. Mark, then how joy springs out at once as the unfailing token of the Holy Spirit’s presence, the first sign that He is having His own way with a man’s heart.
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