Gladness Quotes

• Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

  Frederick Buechner

  Life, Spiritual, Pain

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 12, 2014

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• A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

  Washington Irving

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  Washington Irving (2015). “Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Sadness, Joy, Sorrow

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.

  John Piper

  Names, Redemption, Glory

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• Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Heart, Oil, Fruits Of The Spirit

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• Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.

  John Calvin

  Jesus, Heart, Joy

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• Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.

  J.R. Miller

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Heart

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• Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.

  Van Morrison

  Romantic, Love You, Heart

  "Song: 'Have I Told You Lately' ('Avalon Sunset')". 1989.

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• A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

  Anne Roiphe

  Love, Smile, Beauty

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• We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Faces, Origin Of Species

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.133, Broadview Press

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• Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Men, Way, Path

  Sam Walter Foss (1907). “Songs of the Average Man”

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• No one has success, until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold qualities of energy, enthusiasm, and gladness.

  L. Whitney Clayton

  Success, Quality, Energy

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• Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Music, Mean, Love Is

  Harry Allen Overstreet (1927). “About ourselves: psychology for normal people”

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• He has made me glad and no one can make me sad. He makes me shout and no one can make me doubt.

  Billy Bray

  Sad, God, Faith

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• The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections. . . . Every time we find our hearts are troubled, that we are not rejoicing in God, a resurrection must follow; a resurrection out of the night of troubled thought into the gladness of the truth.

  George MacDonald

  Christian, Heart, Night

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• Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.

  Aidan Chambers

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.552, Random House

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• If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it.

  Douglas Wilson

  Doe, Lasts, Hell

  Douglas Jones, Douglas Wilson (1998). “Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth”, p.75, Canon Press & Book Service

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• Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in the pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

  Norton Juster

  Fall, Moving, Wings

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• A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

  Mark Twain

  Wedding, Flower, Sunshine

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• If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.

  Helen Keller

  Believe, Moon, Sky

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• God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mother, Baby, Heart

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• [My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did.

  Luis Walter Alvarez

  Father, Reading, Eye

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• To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.

  Carl Wilhelm Scheele

  Happy, Heart, Science

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• The seventh day of creation is the most eloquent and insightful as to the nature of God. From a literary perspective, the Sabbath forms the pinnacle of the story. Like the dramatic kiss of a soldier returning from war, this is the moment we’re not meant to miss. In choosing rest as the grand finale, God reveals himself as one driven by neither anxiety nor fear but one who finds gladness in both the work of creation and the creation of work.

  Margaret Feinberg

  War, Kissing, Perspective

  FaceBook post by Margaret Feinberg from Dec 02, 2012

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• My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts, do not feat that it will dampen your endeavor and keep it from being fulfilled, do not say, Sin is strong, impiety is strong, the bad environment is strong, and we are lonely and powerless, the bad environment will dampen us and keep our good endeavor from being fulfilled. Flee from such despondency, my children! There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for the sins of men.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lonely, Strong, Children

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