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• Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise.

  Charles Hodge

  Christian, Religious, Blessing

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• The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

  Saadi

  Rose, Sorrow, Together

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• Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!

  Horace

  Hours, Accepting

  "Horace, the Odes and Epodes: With an English Translation".

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• The linden, in the fervors of July,
  Hums with a louder concert. When the wind
  Sweeps the broad forest in its summer prime,
  As when some master-hand exulting sweeps
  The keys of some great organ, ye give forth
  The music of the woodland depths, a hymn
  Of gladness and of thanks.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Keys, July

  William Cullen Bryant, “Among The Trees”

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• Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Growing Up, Flower, Culture

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.321

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• Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass.

  Sarah Knowles Bolton

  Night, Brave, Tears

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• Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.

  Charles Fenno Hoffman

  Kindness, Greatness, Be Kind

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• A marriage. . .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

  Soulmate, Flower, Sunshine

  Mark Twain (1992). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3: 1869”, p.348, Univ of California Press

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• The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.

  Richard Jordan

  Love, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Strew your gladness on earth's bed,
  So be merry, so be dead.

  Charles Sorley

  War, Bed, Earth

  Charles Hamilton Sorley (1978). “The poems and selected letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley”

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• "And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Laughing, Contentment, Answers

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “The Wounded Land”, p.286, Del Rey

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• In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Gratitude, Sweet, Heart

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• Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Memories, Flower, Past

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Night, Clouds, Hopeful

  "Hope, Faith, and Love". Poem by Friedrich Schiller (circa 1786), as translated in "The Common School Journal", Volume IX, edited by Horace Mann (p. 38), 1847.

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• The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.

  John Piper

  Greatness, Goal, Missions

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• The gospel is a thing of joy. It provides us with a reason for gladness. Of course there are times of sorrow. Of course there are hours of concern and anxiety. We all worry. But the Lord has told us to lift our hearts and rejoice. I see so many people...who seem never to see the sunshine, but who constantly walk with storms under cloudy skies. Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Attitude, Heart, Sunshine

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• I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me.

  Joel S. Goldsmith

  Morning, Expression, Order

  Joel S. Goldsmith (2013). “The Art of Meditation”, p.54, BookBaby

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• Thus it is that our faith and trust in our Heavenly Father, so far as this mortal experience is concerned, consists not simply of faith and gladness that He exists, but is also a faith and trust that, if we are humble, He will tutor us, aiding our acquisition of needed attributes and experiences while we are in mortality. We trust not only the Designer but also His design of life itself, including our portion thereof!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Father, Humble, Design

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• I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord saith leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if you knew what were before you, or if you saw some glances of it, you would, with gladness, swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Grief, Land, Swim

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• Every year, I might almost say every day, that I live, I seem to see more clearly how all the rest and gladness and power of our Christian life hinges on one thing; and that is, taking God at His word, believing that He really means exactly what He says, and accepting the very words in which He reveals His goodness and grace, without substituting others or altering the precise modes and tenses which He has seen fit to use.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Christian, Believe, Mean

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• Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation and unimpeachable hope. This hope is a foretaste of future blessings, of which the soul even now receives direct experience, and so it comes to know in part the surpassing richness of God's bounty, in accordance with the Psalmist's words, 'Taste and know that the Lord is bountiful' (Ps. 34:8). For He is the jubilation of the righteous, the joy of the upright, the gladness of the humble, and the solace of those who grieve because of Him.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

  George Eliot

  Music, World, Invisible

  George Eliot (1874). “The Legend of Jubal: And Other Poems”, p.242

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• He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness.

  Susanna Wesley

  Blessed, Heart, Perception

  John Kirk, Susanna Wesley (1864). “The Mother of the Wesleys: A Biography”, p.268

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• Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not that it will wear away your work and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done.' Fly from that dejection, children!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lonely, Children, Men

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• Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Soul

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4145, Delphi Classics

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