It was not an either / or but a both / and, and he was completely forthright about that also: «You will, in the trial before you, find much help and much more quiet joy of spirit before the Blessed Sacrament and in prayer to Our Lady than in my letters.» (faith.org.uk)
Sarah Ban Breathnach celebrates in her work quiet joys, simple pleasures, and everyday epiphanies. (bookbrowse.com)
In his Guerre Pace (War's Peace) body of work Bertolo sought to consider the contradiction between the «willingness of human beings to inflict suffering on their neighbors and the evident pointlessness of history» and concurrently, «the serenity and quiet joy of family intimacy.» (marcfoxx.com)