Christian Joyful Quotes & Sayings

The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate. The Christian can be sad, and often is perplexed, but he is never really worried, because he knows that the purpose of God is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ. — D. Elton Trueblood

Life is exceedingly great. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Live your life without any fear. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He had theologically redefined the Christian life as something active, not reactive. It had nothing to do with avoiding sin or with merely talking or teaching or believing theological notions or principles or rules or tenets. It had everything to do with living one's whole life in obedience to God's call through action. It did not merely require a mind, but a body too. It was God's call to be fully human, to live as human beings obedient to the one who had made us, which was the fulfillment of our destiny. It was not a cramped, compromised, circumspect life, but a life lived in a kind of wild, joyful, full-throated freedom - that was what it was to obey God. — Eric Metaxas

Satan can't steal your joy unless you let him. — Sarah Beth Lindberg

Contentment is indispensable joy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am glad to see this sacred day. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be grateful for the blessing of the moments. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not be anxious and begin to pray. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Spirituality is the dance of the day. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My soul sings joyful praise to the Holy one. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The awareness of God's greatness gives joy and inner peace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Our life is to be bound up with the life of Christ; we are to draw constantly from Him, partaking of Him, the living Bread that came down from heaven, drawing from a fountain ever fresh, ever giving forth its abundant treasures. If we keep the Lord ever before us, allowing our hearts to go out in thanksgiving and praise to Him, we shall have a continual freshness in our religious life. Our prayers will take the form of a conversation with God as we would talk with a friend. He will speak His mysteries to us personally. Often there will come to us a sweet joyful sense of the presence of Jesus. Often our hearts will burn within us as He draws nigh to commune with us as He did with Enoch. When this {130} is in truth the experience of the Christian, there is seen in his life a simplicity, a humility, meekness, and lowliness of heart, that show to all with whom he associates that he has been with Jesus and learned of Him. — Ellen G. White

The first sight I beheld when I first awakened was a pair of eyes filled with pure adoration and a joyful grin that shone more brightly than the afternoon sun. Though he hadn't spoken a single word, I knew exactly who he was. He was my creator ... my Lord ... my God. — Kristen Reed

How gracious to forgive the people who hurt you — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be thankful, joyful and prayerful. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Can one, seeing the sun with one's sensuous eyes, not rejoice? But how much more joyful it is when the mind sees with its inner eye the Sun of justice, Christ! Then in truth one rejoices with angelic joy; of this the Apostle too said: 'Our conversation is in heaven' (Phil. 3:20). — Seraphim Of Sarov

I hope the doctrine that Christians ought to be gloomy will soon be driven out of the universe. There are no people in the world who have such a right to be happy, nor have such cause to be joyful as the saints of the living God. — Charles Spurgeon

I wish you a joyful time at Christmas and throughout the New Year. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying: 'Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say: Rejoice!' (Phil. 4:4). We rejoice because we have something which all the death and corruption of this world cannot take away, that is, the eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ. — Seraphim Rose

Do not give up on love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

True peace cannot be found in a 'place'. Rather, it is found in a Person who can be with you in any 'place'. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The consumption of alcohol is increasing among youth. Targeting young audiences, advertisers portray beer and wine as joyful, socially desirable, and harmless. Producers are promoting new types of alcoholic beverages as competitors in the huge soft-drink market. Grocery and convenience stores and gas stations stock alcoholic beverages side by side with soda pop. Can Christians who are involved in this commerce be indifferent to the physical and moral effects of the alcohol from which they are making their profits? — Dallin H. Oaks

Towards himself a Christian should have a broken spirit, but towards God it should be one of rejoicing always in Him. He rejoices not for its own sake nor because of any joyful experience, work, blessing or circumstance, but exclusively because God is his center. — Watchman Nee

Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the previous ones. Some of those old pictures fade, but the impressions they leave will never pass away. Such an impression is the image of Hein Sietsma
a joyful Christian who loved life so much but was still willing to give it to the great, good, and holy cause. — Diet Eman

Keep seeking,keep believing and keep praying. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The significance of the resurrection claim within "true" Christian descriptions of the self, world and God is that, despite how tragic and hopeless present situations and circumstances appear to be, there is a God who sits high and looks low, a God who came into this filthy, fallen world in the form of a common peasant in order to commence a new epoch, an epoch in which Easter focuses our attention on the decisive victory of Jesus Christ and hence the possibility of our victory over our creature hood, the old creation and this old world, with its history of oppression and exploitation. So to be a Christian is to have a joyful attitude toward the resurrection claim, to stake one's life on it and to rest one's hope upon its promise - the promise of a new heaven and a new earth. — Cornel West

Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful. — Henry Ward Beecher

Be joyful for the fruit of your labour. — Lailah Gifty Akita

May your heart be joyful to overcome painful situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Gratitude is joyful act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be joyful. Be graceful. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A grateful heart is good medicine. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy. — Elizabeth George

Your sacred time is now! Begin to live passionately. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be glad while you have breath. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am graceful, joyful and wonderful. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have yet to see Satan overcome a truly joyful Christian. — Billy Graham

What a joyful journey, to travel with the Lord. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Live each day with ecstatic serenity — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be strong. There is hope in any situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be happy, be joyful. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Gratitude is a joyful act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Christian religion is the religion of sinners, of such as have sinned, and in whom sin in some measure still dwells.
The Christian life is a life of continued repentance, humiliation for and mortification of sin, of continual faith in, thankfulness for, and love to the Redeemer, and hopeful joyful expectation of a day of glorious redemption, in which the believer shall be fully and finally acquitted, and sin abolished for ever. — Matthew Henry

Edinolochniks [individual peasant farmers] are whitewashing their khatas [simple Ukrainian houses]. They look at us with a challenge in their eyes: 'It's Easter.' The implication behind this strange remark in autumn was the hint that they were celebrating the arrival of the most joyful moment of the year. Some historians have suggested that the Germans, with black crosses on their vehicles, were seen as bringing Christian liberation to a population oppressed by Soviet atheism. Many Ukrainians did welcome the Germans with bread and salt, and many Ukrainian girls consorted cheerfully with German soldiers. It is hard to gauge the scale of this phenomenon in statistical terms, but it is significant that the Abwehr, the Germany Army intelligence department, recommended that an army of a million Ukrainians should be raised to fight the Red Army. This was firmly rejected by Hitler who was horrified at the suggestion of Slavs fighting in Wehrmacht uniform. — Vasily Grossman

We are divine. God is lives within us. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful ... We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength. — Amy Carmichael

Plant in tears, harvest with joy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Only the forward-looking Christian remains sincerely optimistic and joyful, knowing that Christ will win in the end. — Billy Graham

He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and love his enemies; but the joyful feeling of love and forgiveness of his enemies filled his soul. — Leo Tolstoy

Love of the soul is happiness to the spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Even when it feels as if we are being crushed by earthly troubles, we can remain joyful. If we keep our focus on God, our spirit cannot be trampled. — Mary C. Neal