I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days,...
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How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and devotion make one feel devout. The courteous gesture increases one's respect for others. To act lovingly is to begin to feel loving, and certainly to act joyfully brings joy to others which in turn makes one feel joyful. I believe we are called to the duty of delight.
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Romans 12:12:
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
(NIV)
Rejoice and exult in hope; be steadfast and patient in suffering and tribulation; be constant in prayer.
(AMP)
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
(KJV)
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Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful tone is silenced.
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I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched.
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To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
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Brown: Gentlemen, I am the bearer of joyful tidings. We leave this charming paradise tomorrow. Quincannon: Paradise! It's the devil's own...
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The female part of the Cry (who had many of them often experienced a joyful self- approbation on being told by their admirers that all their p...
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Hebrews 12:22:
But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly
(NIV)
But rather, you have come to Mount Zion, even to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless multitudes of angels in festal gathering
(AMP)
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
(KJV)
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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
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One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
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Most joyful the Poet be;
It is through him that all men see.
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The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.
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To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey, to-morrow will we be married.
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Peace, Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births.
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Acts 14:23:
Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.
(NIV)
And when they had appointed and ordained elders for them in each church with prayer and fasting, they committed them to the Lord in Whom they had come to believe [being full of joyful trust that He is the Christ, the Messiah].
(AMP)
And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
(KJV)
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As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express,the more joy you experience.
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Psalms 100:1:
A psalm. For giving grateful praise. Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.
(NIV)
A Psalm of thanksgiving and for the thank offering. MAKE A joyful noise to the Lord, all you lands!
(AMP)
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
(KJV)
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1 Corinthians 13:13:
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
(NIV)
And so faith, hope, love abide [faith--conviction and belief respecting man's relation to God and divine things; hope--joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation; love--true affection for God and man, growing out of God's love for and in us], these three; but the greatest of these is love.
(AMP)
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
(KJV)
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Earth that bore with joyful ease Hemlock for Socrates,...
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James 1:2:
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds
(NIV)
Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren, whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into various temptations.
(AMP)
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
(KJV)
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Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted. - De Tranquillitate Animi
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And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
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A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.
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Colossians 1:12:
And giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his people in the kingdom of light.
(NIV)
Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and made us fit to share the portion which is the inheritance of the saints (God's holy people) in the Light.
(AMP)
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
(KJV)
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Acts 8:37:
And Philip said, If you believe with all your heart [if you have a conviction, full of joyful trust, that Jesus is the Messiah and accept Him as the Author of your salvation in the kingdom of God, giving Him your obedience, then] you may. And he replied, I do believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
(AMP)
And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
(KJV)
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