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To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy, and then, like sheep, it comes most surely unsought and we "being in the way," the angel of God, a bright-haired Joy, is sure to meet us.
As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being. God speaks for the most pat in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard.
God | Joy | Little | Love | Silence | Soul | Truth | Wills | Wisdom | God |
The experience of life nearly always works toward the confirmation of faith. It is the total significance of life that it reveals God to man; and life only can do this; neither thought, nor demonstration, nor miracle, but only life, weaving its threads of daily toil and trial and joy into a pattern on which, at last, is inscribed the name of "God."
Experience | Faith | God | Joy | Life | Life | Man | Thought | Wisdom | Trial | God |
The acceptance of truth that joy and sorrow, laughter and tears are not confined to any particular time, place or people, but are universally distributed, should make us more tolerant of and more interested in the lives of others.
Acceptance | Joy | Laughter | People | Sorrow | Tears | Time | Truth | Wisdom |
Shantananda Saraswathi, fully Swami Shantananda Saraswathi, born Chandrashekar
Different religions are only signposts. In all religions the basic tenets are joy and compassion.
Compassion | Joy | Tenets | Wisdom |
Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain.
Robert Louis Stevenson, fully Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasure activity.
Aspiration | Fortune | Joy | Pleasure | Wisdom | Aspiration |