joy

The news can be poison to your soul, don't let it kill your joy, be compassionate but not consumed. Be empathetic not enraged.

The problem with churches of all sorts,_ he continued, __s that so often they ignore the key teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, like the doctrine of love. So often we ask God to be on our side instead of asking that we be blessed enough to be on his. That said, the wheat and the tares must grow up together, and in the days of harvest they will be separated properly.

Whisper sweetly the tenderness of the moment. Let the love teach you the true meaning and passion of this experience we share. With gratitude and reverence for the blessings and miracles I receive and witness, my heart still beats as the little things die to be reborn with a greater joy for life in each moment.

Having a vested interest in other souls unconditionally creates a ripple effect that produces miracles in the lives of those around us.

A simple truth delivered in kindness may be the impetus that ignites a passionate fire in another__ soul and goes on to become the source of motivation for positive change.

Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.

When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level.

Love is the ultimate creator.

If someone is facing a difficult time, one of the kindest things you can do for him or her is to say, ____ just going to love you through this.

A person can put up any kind of protective wall, but love and truth always find a way around it.

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, hand out to anyone. They are a great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very centre of reality. If you are close to it, the spray will wet you: if you are not,, you will remian dry. Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever? Once a man is separated from God, what can he do but wither and die.

I don't care what it looks, I don't care what it feels like, I believe God.

The greatest joy is in giving; after all, God gave Christ for us.

How do you wipe away pain? You don__. You put in tenderness, compassion and joy. You cling to hope and then you offer everything to God. And you wait, with faith you see all things anew _ light shines out from darkness, happiness grows through every pain, and all things become indeed so very beautiful in His time.

Joy is found in Jesus when we rejoice in Him. We can rejoice our way to joy!

Joy recollected is indeed no longer the emotion itself.

An act of kindness may take only a moment of our time, but when captured in the heart the memory lives forever.