April 17

Joy

“Joy unspeakable.”
— 1 Peter 1:8

“Where His will is there is happiness. … Christ is my happiness … but it is in the path of His will that we find the enjoyment of His love. … Thus I find in Him a source of profound and ineffable joy … our treasure is Himself.”

“I have been unspeakably happy lately, yet as making me nothing in the thought of being the object of God's love; I had been seeking right affections towards Him — all right — but the thought that He loved me flowed in on me in joy and peace; and peace is a very deep thing, like a river.”