Gladness Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

  Sarah Waters

  Sweet, Believe, Oysters

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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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• What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Strong, Law

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.103, Courier Corporation

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• I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Math, Two, Giving

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

  Saadi

  Rose, Sorrow, Together

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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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• Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

  James Broughton

  Sadness, Youth, Poet

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• The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient beauty of youth, are so apt to awaken in the bosom of the aged.

  Lydia M. Child

  Men, Childhood, Youth

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• Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.

  George MacDonald

  Father, Yoke, Unrest

  George MacDonald (1989). “Discovering the character of God”, Bethany House Pub

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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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• That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

  Albert Pike

  Wisdom, Heart, Ignorance

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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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• 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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• 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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• We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare. Then this material world will become the very paradise of the Kingdom this elemental earth will be in a heavenly state and all the servants of God will live in the utmost joy happiness and gladness. We must all strive and concentrate all our thoughts in order that such happiness may accrue to the world of humanity.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Servant Of God, Order, Justice

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• The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Laughter, Heart

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• The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

  Frederick Buechner

  Healing, Godly, Generosity

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jul 14, 2016

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• Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found it so - than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind...We behold the face of nature bright with gladness...We do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects and seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life.

  Charles Darwin

  Struggle, Bird, Singing

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• The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Song, Kings

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “The King”

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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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• 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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