“So what is joy? Is it a symptom, a surprise, a sovereign bestowal, a supernatural response? Why does it pop up under every conceivable circumstance? And why is it elusive as a butterfly, dying if you hold onto it?”

“Defining the Indefinable”

Joe Aldrich

Joy is the Christian’s contentment resting on the certain truth that satisfaction of our deepest delights comes not FROM God but IN God.

Defining Joy

Habakkuk 3:17-19

“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end…. The ‘will’ never takes the least step but to this objective.”

Universal Quest

Blaise Pascal

“Indifference to the pursuit of joy in God would be indifference to the glory of God, and that is sin. Therefore, my quest took on a seriousness, an earnestness, a gravity that I never dreamed would be part of pursuing joy.”

Serious Joy

For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies: For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild:

Sources of Joy

“There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven; but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.… It is the secret signature of each soul, the incommunicable and unappeasable want, the thing we desired before we met our wives or made our friends or chose our work, and which we shall still desire on our deathbeds, when the mind no longer knows wife or friend or work.… All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it.”

The Secret Signature

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