Sentences with phrase «joy in»

I had been pursuing and activating joy in my life in the relatively good times, now I had to do it in the midst of darkness, depression, torturous pain.

There are other reasons too of course, but honestly, there is so much more joy in having Jesus as your Lord than trying to be your own lord.

That is, He takes our sorrow and gives us joy in its place.

It acknowledges the bullying force of death but also life's usurping of it, the validation of our suffering and grief as well as our courage and joy in the midst of them.

This is the only way to live with joy in your spirit.

To say that God is God is to say that he is always active, living, «moving out» to express his nature, rejoicing in every expression of it, tenderly and compassionately entering into relationship with every finite occasion to give it a similar joy in actualizing all that may possibly be available for it, and accepting into himself all that is achieved in the world.

Only Christ, the true world Savior, can bring lasting peace and joy in an individual's life, that religious adherence by all other world faiths and philosophies can never bring about.

«There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety - nine righteous persons who need no repentance.»

On this path, we can rest, free from insecurity as we experience deep gospel joy in our marriages.

I want to demonstrate joy in suffering, not joy without it.

As a girl who makes her living (and finds so much joy in) sharing her questions, ideas, insights, and experiences online and in books, the value that Jesus places on secrecy can be a bit disconcerting.

It is not the fostering of the individuality of others because of one's joy in it.

My aim is to nourish what I believe is an emerging new consciousness among many potential dreamers and doers in the churches who can help provide us with the visions and the values we need to promote a movement toward an ecologically optimum world community full of justice and joy in which the human race can not only survive but embark on exciting new adventures of physical and spiritual enjoyment.

It is for those who want to know how to live their life with peace and joy in their hearts.

Isaiah locates this joy in the giving of a little child.

The Almighty God came to provide hope and joy in a world of hopelessness and human insufficiency.

What the world needs to surrender to is thier own hearts, be honest with yourself, we can not obtain peace or joy in our hearts from anything this world can offer or it would be done by now.

Behold from faith thus flow forth love and joy in the Lord, and from love a joyful, willing, and free mind that serves one's neighbour and takes no account of gratitude or ingratitude, or praise or blame, of gain or loss...

For some reason, folks that don't believe in some sort of supernatural deity find great joy in pointing out the obvious.

The Pope asked the crew - three Americans, two Russians and an Italian - what gives them the most joy in their work.

So, they choose «life is a bitch,» instead of the freedom of forgiveness, peace and joy in Christ.

If we took some joy in how we have developed, we may look to the future with more excitement.

«No wonder you admit to struggling to fine joy in your life --- you are following the ever changing philosophies of this world.

------ No wonder you admit to struggling to fine joy in your life --- you are following the ever changing philosophies of this world.

If a Soldier is willing to fight and die for your right to be a religious dogmatist, he is also willing to fight and die for my right to live up to principles of decency, empathy and kindness that come not from fear of God but joy in living in peace with others and the love of a shared humanity.

Hearing that saddens me, because there is so much joy in being able to communicate with your spouse.

We can discount some of the sentimentalities which have grown up around the image of St. Francis, but the genuineness of his delight in the created world, and the expression of interior joy in outward song is inescapable.53

The apparent aim of the portrait (and the organization) is to celebrate Jesus» earthy humanity and his joy in living, an aspect of Jesus otherwise obscured by tradition.

Some filled with pain but many have joy in something and are truly willing to share.

Time and time again, the people we interviewed shared that they are aiming to live life intentionally and purposefully now, and that even in the midst of being unsure about the future and even longing for a spouse, they are experiencing genuine joy in their current lives.

I have peace and joy in its place despite my gangrenous toenails.

The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the holy Ghost.

We can always claim joy in suffering (James 1:2), peace in tribulation (John 16:33), and faith in a better world to come (Hebrews 11:16).

Jesus talked fairly authoritatively about love, sin, and fidelity, and joy in mRriage matters.

I can well imagine Christians gathering with complete joy in places as diverse as the Great Hall at Elsinore Castle, or the Imperial Audience Hall at Kyoto, or the central dining room at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

That kind of joy in human gifts and human capacity is the basis of art, the basis of everything good in culture.

Now, having been beleagured and come to renewed hope and joy in a gracious church, I hope I continue to be sensitive (just not raw!)

Thus a true Catholic Studies program, Briel suggested, offers students an encounter, «not merely with a set of texts but with living Catholic minds who share in that gaudium de veritate, that joy in the truth at the heart of the life of a university, properly understood.»

All of this happiness and joy in me is all a lie.

How can we lean into Christmas joy in the midst of both personal and global pain and suffering?

Nature has «conspired» to make parents take joy in children and to love them from the start, and even when they don't deserve it.

The end - product of prayer is conformity with God's purposes, joy in his fellowship, newness of life with him and with our brethren, and the recognition that (in Paul's words from Romans) «God works towards a good end, and in every respect, for those who love him.»

Rather do we take a stern joy in the astringency and desolation; and what is called weakness of character seems in most cases to consist in the inaptitude for these sacrificial moods, of which one's own inferior self and its pet softnesses must often be the targets and the victims.

In prayer man is even now sharing in God's kingdom, where love reigns supreme and where all things find their joy in mutuality and sharing.

On being asked why he permitted the animal thus to dirty his clothes, Towianski replied: «This dog, whom I am now meeting for the first time, has shown a great fellow - feeling for me, and a great joy in my recognition and acceptance of his greetings.

I find JOY in helping...

But defines, for the fortunate, that joy in which all joys should rejoice.

life or by death» (1:20),) and that «Christ be proclaimed» (1:1.8) Having «the mind of Christ» he is able to relativize his own keen desire: «to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account» (1:24) So he remains in their service, for the sake of their «progress and joy in the Lord.»

So we should begin with: «Do you have joy in God?

Viladesau adapts to aesthetics an argument from Kant and concludes that «God is... self - subsistent joy in God's own being and in all that participates in it, and the supreme goal and mover of human desire.»