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There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.

Victoria Jackson

Peace

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

Jesse Jackson

Heart

Joy

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Duty

Joy

Law

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.

Susanna Hoffs

Joy

I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

Anyway, he and I worked on the script together, and I must say he was a joy to work with. Very enthusiastic.

Arthur Hiller

Work

Joy

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.