Archive of Quotes Listed by Topic
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Jokes
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
--Will Rogers--
Joy
"A joyless life is not a Christian life, for joy is one constant in the recipe for Christian living." --William Barclay (Flesh and Spirit, p 78)
"Many Christians look as gloomy as if they were going to their own funeral."
--A.B. Simpson (The Christ Life, 79)--
"The religion of Jesus should be as bright as the blossoms of the spring, the songs of the warbling birds and the springing pulses of reviving nature." 
-- A.B. Simpson (The Christ Life, 80) --
"The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful."
David Steindl-Rast
(quoted by Brennan Manning in Ruthless Trust, 33)
"Joy is the gigantic secret of the Christian."
-- G.K. Chesterton --
"The living presence of Jesus awakened joy and set people free. Joy was in fact the most characteristic result of all his ministry to ragamuffins."
- Brennan Manning -
"If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere."
-- Billy Sunday --
"Joy is the serious business of heaven."
-- C.S. Lewis --
"When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine."
-- E. Stanley Jones --
"There is not a Scripture that says, 'Be sad.'  I looked for one but I couldn't find one." --Armin Gesswein--
Junk
"Junk is something you keep for years and then throw out two weeks before you need it." --Anon.--

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