There was a kind of inner joy behind his eyes.

Every lovely thing heard or seen gave him a deep, subtle, inner joy that irradiated his life.

He closed his eyes, feeling a pang of inner, secret, silent joy.

An inner joy seems to have been a characteristic of Paul VI.

But the face of each child shone with an inner joy and wonder that had not been there at the start of the journey.

Glory isn't worth anything compared to the inner joy of accomplishing something.

It's a great inner joy to feel that you're growing in grace.

While training for a gymnastics competition she is encouraged "to smile, to project the inner joy of living in Franco's Peace."

Somehow, from the dark below the bridge, he had brought back some smatch of that inner joy and serenity.

He rocked back and forth, drunk not from the wine but some inner joy.