There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them and so they bring us nothing but sit and sing awhile upon the roof and then fly away.
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Do not look for rest in any pleasure because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.
The commandment of God is that we love Our Lord in all our heart in all our soul in all our thought. In all our heart; that is in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is in all our will without gainsaying. In all our their ought; that is that we think on Him without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true that is work of mans will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.
People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life to learn something is a joy to me.
When you jump for joy beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them and so they bring us nothing but sit and sing awhile upon the roof and then fly away.
All human joys are swift of wing For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing You find you havent got it.
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternitys sunrise.
There?s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Do not look for rest in any pleasure because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.
Happy is the person who not only sings but feels Gods eye is on the sparrow and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.
If we could share this world below If we could learn to love… If we could share this world below Wed need no world above.
The commandment of God is that we love Our Lord in all our heart in all our soul in all our thought. In all our heart; that is in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is in all our will without gainsaying. In all our their ought; that is that we think on Him without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true that is work of mans will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joys.
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life to learn something is a joy to me.
Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy and you will intensify its ecstasy.
Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow.