Let the future be a joy and not a burden… Know the past is a foundation and not an anchor… Hold the present in steady hands like ordinary clay about to become a collector’s item! And… Go with God!
00479 – Go with God!
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00478 – Happiness vs. Joy
Happiness turns up more or less where you expect it to—a good marriage, a rewarding job, a pleasant vacation. Joy, on the other hand, is as notoriously unpredictable as the one who bequeaths it.
00476 – Keeping the Joy of the Spirit
The devil is most happy when he can snatch from a servant of God true joy of the Spirit. He carries dust with him to throw into the smallest chinks of conscience and thus soil one’s mental candor and purity of life. But if joy of the Spirit fills the heart, the...
00475 – Heart Filled with Joy
When I think of God, my heart is so filled with joy that the notes fly off as from a spindle.
00474 – Finding Joy
Find joy in everything that leads to God.
00473 – Joy = Awareness of Fulfillment
Joy is nothing else than the awareness of our being fulfilled in our true being, in our personal center.
00471 – Joy is Compounded of Many Things
Sometimes joy is compounded of many elements: a touch of sadness, a whimper of pain, a harsh word tenderly held until all its arrogance dies, the casting of the eye into the face that understands, the clasp of a hand that holds, then releases, a murmur of tenderness...
00470 – Celebrate where God is at Work
Sometimes those who have been in the church for a long time can adopt a joyless spirit… These people…become blind to the good things around them. …Instead, they obsess over bad things and want everyone else to…obsess with them. This kind of complaining, joyless spirit...
00469 – God: Full of Joy
We should…think that God leads a very interesting life, and that he is full of joy. Undoubtedly he is the most joyous being in the universe. The abundance of his love and generosity is inseparable from his infinite joy. All of the good and beautiful things from which...
00465 – Experiencing Grace
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of meaningless and empty life… It strikes us when, year after year, the longed-for perfection does not appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as...