Joy
is prayer -- Joy is strength -- Joy is love -- Joy is a net of love by which you
can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy.
The best way to show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything
with joy. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of the
Christ risen. - Mother Teresa
It
is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us,
His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruit-bearing and His
joy in possessing us, as His Bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of
this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing:
His joy in us knows no change. - James Hudson Taylor
When
it gives you no joy to do God’s pleasure, and yet you are shut up to the doing
of His pleasure is the only way to be saved, and are thereby perpetually
dragooned into the doing of what you hate, as the only means of escaping hell,
would not this be itself a hell? Can you not see that in this state of mind you
are not saved and cannot be? To be saved you must come into a state of mind in
which you will ask no higher joy than to do God’s pleasure. This alone will be
forever enough to fill your cup to overflowing. - Charles Finney
The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a "happy
Christian." Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus
Christ had joy, and He prays "that they might have My joy fulfilled in
themselves." - Oswald Chambers
Our Lord assured his apostles: “Your joy no man shall take from you... Your
joy shall be full.” He who unites his will to God’s experiences a full and
lasting joy: full, because he has what he wants, as was explained above;
lasting, because no one can take his joy from him, since no one can prevent what
God wills from happening. - Alphonsus de Ligouri
Joy
is not gush: joy is not jolliness. Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God's
will, because the soul delights itself in God himself... rejoice in the will of
God, and in nothing else. Bow down your heads and your hearts before God, and
let the will, the blessed will of God, be done. - Amy Carmichael
There
is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine
own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to
Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other. - Augustine
Joy
is prayer -- Joy is strength -- Joy is love -- Joy is a net of love by which you
can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy.
The best way to show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything
with joy. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of the
Christ risen. - Mother Teresa 
It
is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us,
His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruit-bearing and His
joy in possessing us, as His Bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of
this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing:
His joy in us knows no change. - James Hudson Taylor
When
it gives you no joy to do God’s pleasure, and yet you are shut up to the doing
of His pleasure is the only way to be saved, and are thereby perpetually
dragooned into the doing of what you hate, as the only means of escaping hell,
would not this be itself a hell? Can you not see that in this state of mind you
are not saved and cannot be? To be saved you must come into a state of mind in
which you will ask no higher joy than to do God’s pleasure. This alone will be
forever enough to fill your cup to overflowing. - Charles Finney
The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a "happy
Christian." Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus
Christ had joy, and He prays "that they might have My joy fulfilled in
themselves." - Oswald Chambers
Our Lord assured his apostles: “Your joy no man shall take from you... Your
joy shall be full.” He who unites his will to God’s experiences a full and
lasting joy: full, because he has what he wants, as was explained above;
lasting, because no one can take his joy from him, since no one can prevent what
God wills from happening. - Alphonsus de Ligouri
Joy
is not gush: joy is not jolliness. Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God's
will, because the soul delights itself in God himself... rejoice in the will of
God, and in nothing else. Bow down your heads and your hearts before God, and
let the will, the blessed will of God, be done. - Amy Carmichael
There
is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine
own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to
Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other. - Augustine