Quotes on Joy & Gratitude

Christian quotes on Joy & Gratitude — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.

When you see a child, you catch God in the act.

Martin Luther

I asked God for many things so that I could enjoy life. God gave me life, so that I could enjoy all things.

Gertrud von le Fort

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Go forth, my heart, and seek joy in this lovely summertime, in the gifts of your God. Behold the beauty of the gardens' adornment, and see how they have decked themselves for me and for you.

Paul Gerhardt

Great are you, Lord, and highly to be praised. Man, this tiny part of your creation, wants to praise you. You yourself stir him to delight in praising you, for you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

Augustine of Hippo

For all that has been - Thanks. For all that will be - Yes.

Dag Hammarskjöld

The world is more than its burden, and life is more than the sum of its gray days.

Alfred Delp

A good sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace. Loving somebody is grace.

Frederick Buechner

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

Frederick Buechner

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

Tim Keller

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

Helen Keller

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

Helen Keller

Happiness is not within us, and it is not outside of us either. Happiness is only in God, and once we have found him, it is everywhere.

Blaise Pascal

God is joy. That is why he placed the sun before his house.

Francis of Assisi

Since God has given me a cheerful heart, he will surely forgive me for serving him cheerfully.

Joseph Haydn

If God wanted us to be sad, he would not give us sun, moon, and the fruits of the earth.

Martin Luther

To make a sad, despairing person cheerful is more than conquering a kingdom.

Martin Luther

The trees stand full of leaves, the earth covers its dust with a green garment; the narcissus and the tulip dress themselves far more beautifully than Solomon's silk.

Paul Gerhardt

He, he makes the sun rise, he sets the moon's course, he lets the winds blow, he opens up the sky. He grants us cattle and joy, he makes us fresh and ruddy, he gives the cows their pasture and our children bread.

Matthias Claudius

The more beautiful and full the memory, the harder the parting. But gratitude transforms the torment of memory into quiet joy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I want no strange, restless, sad and sullen piety, but a gentle, mild, pleasant and peaceful one, in a word: a free and joyful piety that is lovable before God and men.

Francis de Sales

Whoever is full of joy preaches without preaching.

Mother Teresa

God, what is happiness! A bowl of gruel, a place to sleep, and no physical pain - that is already a great deal.

Theodor Fontane

It is quite alright with the good Lord if you laugh heartily every once in a while.

Martin Luther

Whoever has heard the Easter message can no longer walk around with a tragic face, leading the humorless existence of a person without hope.

Karl Barth

The Lord is good and gladly shares himself; his being is a fountain of good gifts. He follows us and asks at every step whether we have nothing to ask of him. Where is a lord who does thus with servants? The Lord is good.

Johann Jakob Rambach

Gratitude looks beyond the gift to the giver.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

A. B. Simpson

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

Sam Storms

Evangelism is the spontaneous overflow of a glad and free heart in Jesus Christ.

Robert Munger

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The essence of loving living as a follower of Jesus isn’t in trying harder but in enjoying more. I’m not saying you can change without trying. I’m saying that enjoyment empowers effort. Pleasure in God is the power for purity.

Sam Storms

There are rare and wonderful species of joy that flourish only in the rainy atmosphere of suffering.

John Piper

God's joy has passed through the poverty of the manger and the distress of the cross; therefore it is unconquerable, irrefutable.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.

Samuel Rutherford

People quoted here

Martin Luther, Gertrud von le Fort, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Paul Gerhardt, Augustine of Hippo, Dag Hammarskjöld, Alfred Delp, Frederick Buechner, Tim Keller, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Waldo Emerson

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