Saint Augustine Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  Saint Augustine

  Happiness, Happy, Determination

• In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Holiday, Angel

• In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Prayer, Light

• Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

  Saint Augustine

  Joy, Forever, Soul

• True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

  Saint Augustine

  Thinking, True Joy, Looks

• There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Happy Life, Joy

  Saint Augustine (2009). “The Confessions of St. Augustine”, p.284, The Floating Press

• They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

  Saint Augustine

  Joy, Darkness, Suffering

• Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Joy, Age

• When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

  Saint Augustine

  Numbers, Flames, People

• The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.

  Saint Augustine

  Running, Love Is, Goal

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