I found myself astonished and shaken by joy.

"Surprised by joy" - right in my own backyard.

He sat down upon a tar-barrel, as if unmanned by joy.

This was only changed when he became a Christian and was 'surprised by joy'.

Posted by joy on March 30th, 2004.

Love, then, is what makes it possible to receive inner knowledge, especially when accompanied by gratitude and joy.

To have everything I am become lost inside a force untouched by love or joy or sorrow.

Posted by joy on April 6th, 2006.

Or that morality is at its purest when untouched by joy.

In Mark the women experience fear, trembling, and terror, unmitigated by joy.