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Joy is prayerJoy 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 normal
result of a heart burning with love.Never let
anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you
forget the joy of Christ risen. Mother Theresa
of Calcutta
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The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,
gentleness, and self-control. If we live by the
Spirit, let us also be guided by the
Spirit.
Galatians 522 and 25 (NRSV)
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One needs to have become very quiet inside,to
hear the soft sound of this word at all.Joy
lives in quietness and in incomprehensibility.Ind
eed, comprehensible this joy is not.But the
comprehensible never brings joy.It is the
comprehensible and yet the true,the real, the
alive that ignites joy.Therefore, real joy is
always something incomprehensible for others, as
well as for the one who experiences
it. Dietrich Bonhoeffer from a collection of
his writings The Mystery of Easter - Edited by
Manfred Weber. Used with permission of The
Crossroad Publishing Company, New York.
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Joy is more than happiness it has a quality of
eternity and promises deep contentment that
withstands the ups and downs of each days
journey. Michaela Youngson
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and
peace in believing, so that you may abound in
hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans
1513 (NRSV)
The fullness of joy is to behold God in all.
Julian of
Norwich, 1342-1416
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Our sense of joy is the way we lean into the
future and have a longing for something beyond
ourselves.
Christine Elliott
If you do a good job for others, you heal
yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy
is a spiritual cure.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Beaming with love, O Lord. What fear have I of
earthly woe Or of the frown of sorrow?   As the
first ray of the dawning sun dispels the dark. So
too, Lord, when Thy blessed light Bursts forth
within the heart. It scatters all our grief and
pain with sweetest balm.   When on Thy love and
grace I ponder, In my hearts deepest
depths. Tears of joy stream down my cheeks
beyond restraining.
Anonymous
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Where others see but the dawn coming over the
hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.

William Blake
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and let the earth rejoice let the sea roar, and
all that fills it let the field exult, and
everything in it. Then shall all the trees of the
forest sing for joy before the Lord.
Psalm
9611-12 (NRSV)
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I would ask of you, my loving God, where is
joy in this dark place where love is gone
cold, where hearts are breaking, where
empty bellies belie a world over fed with stuff,
where joy is bought, downloaded, exchanged
for cash, fought over, stolen, hoarded,
hidden and marketed by clever
souls who seldom smile? And where is joy in a
concrete world where green is covered by grey
and colours by the clever dreariness of
invention?
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Look and I will show you.Look closely at the
cracks in the stones.Look closely and seea
dandelion, breaking out, roots deeply in the
soil. Gentle power to fracture the stiffness of
death. Listen closer still and I will sing to
you of mornings that follow dark nights, of
spring that follows cold winter,of the risen one
who comes towarm our heartsand declare good
newsand joy everlasting. Mark Wakelin
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Joy to the world! In the birth of the
Christ-child In the resurrection of
Christ-crucified In the presence of the Holy
Spirit. Joy to the world!
Michaela Youngson
Joy to the world! The Lord is come Let earth
receive her King, Let every heart prepare him
room, And heaven and nature sing. Joy to the
earth! The Saviour reigns Let men their songs
employ While fields and floods, rocks, hills and
plains Repeat the sounding joy. Isaac Watts
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Give me joy in my heart, keep me praising,Give
me joy in my heart, I pray,Give me joy in my
heart, keep me praising,Keep me praising till
the break of day.

Traditional
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth
break forth into joyous song and sing praises.
With trumpets and the sound of the horn make a
joyful noise before the King, the Lord. Let
the floods clap their hands let the hills sing
together for joy. Psalm 984,6,8
(NRSV)
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I felt my heart strangely warmed
But it was not long before the enemy suggested,
This cannot be faith for where is thy joy?
Then was I taught that peace and victory over sin
are essential to faith in the Captain of our
salvation but that, as to the transports of joy
that usually attend the beginning of it,
especially in those who have mourned deeply, God
sometimes giveth, sometimes withholdeth, them
according to the counsels of His own will. After
my return home, I was much buffeted with
temptations, but I cried out, and they fled
John Wesley


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Gracious God
Source of all joy, Revealer of all beauty, Centre
of all love, I thank you for this day, Open my
soul, eyes and heart to the gifts you
offer. Amen.
Michaela Youngson
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As the Father has loved me so I have loved you
abide in my love. If you keep my commandments,
you will abide in my love, just as I have kept
my Fathers commandments and abide in his love.
I have said these things to you so that my joy
may be in you, and that your joy may be
complete. This is my commandment, that you
love one another as I have loved you John
159-12 (NRSV)
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How many moments of genuine joy have I had in my
life?
The first rush of love, the birth of a child, a
winning goal in injury time, the view from the
summit, the sudden, shocking certainty of Gods
love. Not many. Add them all up and it is a lot
less than a lifetime. Joy can be rare, and is
precious, but it sustains us. So enjoy it, share
it, cherish it, give it. Being joyful always is
not easy when faced with real life, but there are
far worse goals.
George Mountford
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Joy the smile of my child, the laughter of a
good friend, the crunch of leaves on an autumn
path.
Michaela Youngson
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Loving GodYou fill me with joyYou have called
me by name You have assured me I am your own
And my heart feels like singing  Your grace has
enfolded me Your love continues to fill me And
I want to dance at the sound of your name 
You are my joy my heart is overflowing,
overflowing with love  May
my joy in you become infectious for others, so
that one day all creation will dance and sing for
joy for joy at all you have done for us in
Jesus. Stephen Poxon, President of the Methodist
Conference 2008-9
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For you shall go out in joy, and be led back in
peace the mountains and the hills before you
shall burst into song, and all the trees of the
field shall clap their hands.
Isaiah 5512 (NRSV)
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and
peace in believing, so that you may abound in
hope by the power of the Holy Spirit
Romans 1513
Rejoice always 1
Thessalonians 516 (NRSV)
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