reflections on joy, part 2

Here's another one from an old favorite book I'm in the middle of rereading:

"'But it is so happy to love,' said the Shepherd quietly. "It is happy to love even if you are not loved in return. There is pain too, certainly, but Love does not think that very significant.'"

-Hinds' Feet on High Places, Hannah Hurnard

reflections on joy

This has been the theme of my summer--the main thing I feel God is trying to teach me these days. Maybe if I get around to it, I'll post some thoughts or other quotes that have gotten me thinking, but for today, here's just one:

 

"There is a joy which is given...to those who love you [God] for your own sake, whose joy you yourself are. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to you, of you, for you; this it is, and there is no other."  --Augustine