Joy

“So much as we see of the love of God, so much shall we delight in him, and no more.”

“Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.”

“Without the diligent use of the grace of obedience, we shall never enjoy the graces of joy, peace and assurance.”

“O you saints of the Most High, you who are traveling on through much failure, through much infirmity, it may be through much trial and tribulation, shout the hallelujahs of heaven!”

“But, in the kingdom of heaven, sorrow and sighing shall fly away.”

“For a Christian hath the reality of things: he hath a husband for ever, he hath matter of joy for ever, he hath a possession for ever; and then there will be a new world.”

“Had I a thousand tongues—should I not employ them all in speaking His praise!”

“I know not whether joy or heaviness in my soul carrieth it away.”

“Rejoice and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven," Matt. v.”

“O what a blessed, happy, comfortable state has he now brought my soul into!”

“The hypocrite, no less than the true servant of God—the stony-ground hearers, no less than those who received the word into good and honest hearts—had joy.”

“Likewise I say unto you (saith Christ) there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more then over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.”

“Subsequent thereto, however, the godly will be ushered into the third heaven—the paradise of God—by the King, in order to have the eternal satisfaction of joy in immediate fellowship with God.”

“Men of praise; men of song; of thankful lips; thankful hands and feet; thankful deeds; thankful lives.”

“Yes, let us love, and sing, and wonder, and go singing and wondering on through life, until we join the songs and admiration of the blessed before the throne.”

“True happiness, joy, and peace will ever be strangers to your heart until it tastes the love of the Savior.”

“They that be in heaven love to see the face of God, they joy in it.”

“I cannot but recommend Him unto you, as your Husband, your Wellbeloved, your Portion, your Comfort, and your Joy.”

“To the witness of conscience, God adds the witness of his Spirit; and in the mouth of these two witnesses our joy is confirmed.”

“Ordinarily, people do not let their spirits out to only a little joy, but they let them out to such an extent that they have no command over their spirits.”

“Light and joy are sown for the mourners in Zion, and the harvest (which is of God s making, for time and manner) is near.”

“If the virtue of the death of Christ be taken away, all the joy of believers goes with it: for it stands only in this.”

“A believer is now an heir of this joy; let him wait until he is of age, and he shall be fully possessed of the joys of heaven.”

“When we have this done, then we have discharged our duty in mourning, and may turn to other occasions as God doth require of us; for when we have mourned and wept, then we must look upon causes of rejoicing and thanksgiving.”

“Rejoice at the approach of the day, as a day wherein we have a prize for our souls, and may enjoy much of God’s presence.”

“Then are Christians like those that drink wine in bowls, merry and glad; for that they have drank into the Spirit, and had their souls refreshed with the sweet gales and strong wine thereof.”

“How would my soul rejoice over you, as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, if you would but entertain and embrace me as your Bridegroom!”

“Now, says Christ, "I delight to do your will, O my God;" it is the joy and rejoicing of my heart to be a-seeking and a-saving lost sinners.”

“A beautiful face is at all times pleasing to the eye—but then especially when there is joy manifested in the countenance.”

“Heavenly joy consists in loving with all the heart, and in being beloved.”

“There is no room for melancholy and depression where eternal realities form the sources of enjoyment.”

“It is the Spirit of God dwelling in us that wrought us and fits us for this great and blessed hope; therefore whenever you think of it, your hearts should be raised in thanksgiving.”

“And therefore the Lord says, “Let him that rejoiceth, rejoice in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me.”

“The treasures of a saint are the presence of God, the favor of God, union and communion with God, the pardon of sin, the joy of the Spirit, and the peace of conscience.”

“Blessed record! sweet sound! amazing truth! grand tidings worth ten thousand worlds!”

“Thus, you see that contentment brings comfort to a man’s life [and] fills it full of comfort in this world; the truth is, it is even a heaven on earth .”

“Could you see the glances of His eye, and the sweet smiles of His lovely face—your hearts would be overcome and ravished with love, and filled with ecstasies of joy and ineffable delight!”

“Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name.”

“We are more than conquerors; that is, triumphers: we live a life of victory; every day is a day of triumph to the meek and quiet soul.”

“No man ever failed to find Christ all that the Bible says He is, and a thousand times better than he had been told before!”

“What is Heaven, but the rest and quiet of a man's spirit; that is the special thing that makes the life of Heaven, there is rest and joy, and satisfaction in God.”

“What a heaven upon earth must be enjoyed in fellowship with him!”

“Even the world of NATURE seems to him as a new-born creation now that he has passed from death unto life.”

“O! who is able to conceive the inexpressible, inconceivable joys that are there?”

“The provisions shall never be taken away—but they shall always be feeding upon those sweets and delicacies which are set before them.”

“O! this is my Beloved, this is my Friend: if I had ten thousand hearts and hands to give, he should have them all.”

“In thy name shall they rejoice all the day; and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.”

“The rod shall be cast into the fire, that we may sing as in the days of our youth.”

“The type, moreover, fixes attention on the Christian as a worshiper-a pilgrim--a warrior--a son of joy.”

“We may be exceedingly glad in the duties of religion, and find it good to draw near to God.”

“Now, as to the excellency of this joy, it will be found to be the pleasant light of the soul.”

“We will give ourselves liberty to rejoice, and we will enlarge ourselves in our joy.”

“Thus though sin may be pardoned, yet the more we sin, the more hardly we shall repent, the longer we shall want joy; or, it may be, go all our lifetime mourning without comfort in such a case.”

“Who should rejoice if not a believer, who is heir of the kingdom, and such a kingdom as eye has not seen?”

“See that there is no waste in the overflowings of your cup of salvation and of joy.”

“Probably the happiest person in many a large city in Christian lands is some child of God, whose bodily health makes him a stranger to sound sleep, and a stranger also to the house of God.”