Gladness Quotes - Page 7

• As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Grateful, Heart, Home

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.66, Thomas Nelson

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• We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

  Jack Gilbert

  Acceptance, World, Ruthlessness

  Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.3, Knopf

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• If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy.

  Francis of Assisi

  Sympathy, Blessed, Thinking

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• I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Wish

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.104, David M Gross

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• We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death.

  Nelson Mandela

  Voice, Victory, Christ

  Nelson Mandela's Speech at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference, db.nelsonmandela.org. April 3, 1994.

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• . . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.

  Frederick Buechner

  Peace, Hands, Giving

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• Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Patience, Comfort, Crosses

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1605, Moody Publishers

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• Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Might, Glory

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays, lectures, addresses”, p.374, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I was utterly and completely miserable, I was nevertheless, and nearly all the time, extremely happy. That gave me something to think about. The discovery was not a pleasant one. It seemed to me that I was losing a great deal. I asked myself, wasn't I sad, hadn't I felt my life breaking up? Yes, that had been true; but each minute, when I stayed without moving in a corner of the room, the cool of the night and the stability of the ground made me breathe and rest on gladness.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Memories, Moving, Night

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• To say that worship is either about glorifying God or finding personal satisfaction is to put asunder what God has joined together. His glory and your gladness are not separate tracks moving in opposite directions. Rather His glory is in your gladness in Him.

  Sam Storms

  Moving, Opposites, Track

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• If believers worship with gladness and passion, anyone not yet a part of the community certainly will be attracted to the One who is the object of their worship.

  Marva Dawn

  Religious, Passion, Community

  Marva J. Dawn (1999). “A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World”, p.124, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever
  Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.

  Madison Cawein

  Laughter, Lying, Home

  MADISON CAWEIN (1899). “Myth and Romance”

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• The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon earth, not because vegetarianism itself is such an important step towards the realization of this kingdom (all real steps are equally important or unimportant), but because it serves as a criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of man is genuine and sincere.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Real, Heart, Men

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• No one has success until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold activity of energy, enthusiasm and gladness. It is to spring to meet the day with a thrill at being alive. It is to go forth to meet the morning in an ecstasy of joy. It is to realize the oneness of humanity.

  Lilian Whiting

  Life, Motivational, Morning

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• I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

  William Wordsworth

  Pride, Boys, Joy

  'Resolution and Independence' (1807) st. 7

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• The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation. From Him who created all, flow life and light and gladness, throughout the realms of illimitable space. From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their unshadowed beauty and perfect joy, declare that God is love.

  Ellen G. White

  Light, Space, Perfect

  Ellen G. White “The Great Controversy—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

  Patti Page

  Song, Joy, Unhappiness

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Wise, Song, Jesus

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• God...made childhood joyous, full of life, bubbling over with laughter, playful, bright and sunny. We should put into their childhood days just as much sunshine and gladness, just as much cheerful pleasure as possible. Pour in the sunshine about them in youth. Let them be happy, encourage all innocent joy, provide pleasant games for them, romp and play with them; be a child again among them. Then God's blessing will come upon your home, and your children will grow up sunny-hearted, gentle, affectionate, joyous themselves and joy-bearers to the world.

  J.R. Miller

  Laughter, Children, Growing Up

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• Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, Thou art the present portion of Thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of Thy preciousness, that from its first to its last day we may be glad and rejoice in Thee. Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Jesus, Art

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.9, Discovery House

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• Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Law, Intellectual, Curiosity

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. Thus the words and actions of the wise regard; Every little service tenfold they reward. But the truly noble know all men as one, And return with gladness good for evil done.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Simple, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

  Helen Keller

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Nature

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Party, Grief, Sadness

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft.

  Mickey Rooney

  Sadness, Sweat, Heartache

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