Quotes About Joy

The joy of nonfiction is searching for balance between storytelling and reporting, finding a way to be both loquacious and observant.

Mathematics should be fun.

Success isn't about wanting what you don't have, it's wanting what you do have.

School should be the best party in town

We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.

So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”

She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.

So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.

And Jacob did just that. He finished the weekís celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad.

Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.

and she conceived and gave birth to a son. “God has taken away my shame,” she said.

Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Finally I can die, now that I have seen your face and know that you are still alive!”

Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.

Then the anger of the LORD burned against Moses, and He said, “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well, and he is now on his way to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.