Quotes about Joy to Uplift You

I don’t know about you, but I don’t always feel like I have that Christian joy I’m supposed to have. Sometimes I can feel too busy or too tired to be joyful. But what is joy, really?

Happiness is untested delight. Joy is delight tested.

– Jack Hyles

Although the fig tree shall not blossom,
neither shall fruit be in the vines;
the labour of the olive shall fail,
and the fields shall yield no meat;
the flock shall be cut off from the fold,
and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will joy in the God of my salvation.

– Habakkuk 3:17-18 | KJV

[Joy] is a cheerful revolt against self and pride.

– Richard J. Foster

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

– Sam Storms

The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. ‘If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,’ Jesus said, ‘he will find his true self.’

– Elisabeth Elliot

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer.

Romans 12:12 | KJV

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. 

– Mother Teresa

Thou wilt shew me the path of life:
in thy presence is fulness of joy;
at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Psalm 16:11 | KJV

Christian joy is letting Christ live out His life through you so that what He is, you become.

– David Jeremiah

May we all always have that joy on the inside and share it with the world outside!