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Browsing Quotes With Tag: joy (8)

  • “God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine,” Lewis says in Mere Christianity. “A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”

    Speaker: C. S. Lewis
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 14 Nov 2012 at 2:21 PM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
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    Tags: happiness, joy, religion
    Shared By: 5 members; sdressfancy, winswmlik, drmccadexavie, oursojeri, MindMeldMom

  • Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

    Speaker: Tim Hansel
    Source: twitter post
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 6:05 AM
    Posted By: jayspeak
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    Tags: attitude, joy
    Shared By: 3 members; winswmlik, sdressfancy, jayspeak

  • Christ is against selfishness and sin—not because He is the giant spoilsport, but the other way around. He is against sin and selfishness because He is against despondency and melancholy and morbidity. He is against the shrinking of our capacity for fulfillment.

    Speaker: Truman Madsen
    Source: "The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength," BYU, 21 November 2000
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 09 Sep 2011 at 8:32 PM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
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    Tags: happiness, joy, temptation
    Shared By: 2 members; drmccadexavie, MindMeldMom

  • Put negatively, if you seek your own immediate gratification and ignore, neglect, or, worse, exploit others, you will not find joy. You will find a chimera. And if you persist, you will find misery. You cannot find joy that way any more than you can jump off your own shadow.
    (Chimera: A fanciful mental illusion or fabrication.)

    Speaker: Truman Madsen
    Source: "The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength," BYU, 21 November 2000
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 09 Sep 2011 at 8:30 PM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
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    Tags: happiness, joy
    Shared By: 3 members; sdressfancy, drmccadexavie, MindMeldMom

  • Blessedness is defined as being higher than happiness. “Happiness comes from without and is dependent on circumstances; blessedness is an inward fountain of joy in the soul itself, which no outward circumstances can seriously affect.”

    Speaker: President Harold B. Lee
    Source: Constitution for a Perfect Life
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 23 Feb 2011 at 10:14 PM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
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    Tags: beatitudes, happiness, joy
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  • God’s joy moves from unmarked box to unmarked box,
    from cell to cell. As rainwater, down into flowerbed.
    As roses, up from ground.
    Now it looks like a plate of rice and fish,
    now a cliff covered with vines,
    now a horse being saddled.
    It hides within these,
    till one day it cracks them open.

    Speaker: Rumi
    Source: bird by bird
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:09 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: joy

  • One of the greatest joys in life is to be in search of one thing and to discover another.

    Speaker: Anne Wilson Schaef
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:46 PM
    Posted By: augmentedfourth
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    Tags: discovery, joy
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  • There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

    Speaker: Henry Ford
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    Posted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:31 AM
    Posted By: wheaties
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    Tags: accomplishment, happiness, joy, success, work
    Shared By: 2 members; fredmartin, wheaties