Pastoral Resources

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it.

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.