Rejoice Quotes - Page 11

• The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Thinking, Evil, Liberty

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.89, TAN Books

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• Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, In whom his world rejoices.

  Johann Cruger

  Heart, Hands, Voice

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• If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our sufferings? This shared suffering confers the kingdom on us. For he spoke truly who said, 'If we suffer with Him, then we shall also be glorified with Him' (Rom. 8:17).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Men, Suffering

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• As God adds his 'Yes' to your 'Yes,' as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his 'Yes' to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new - the holy estate of matrimony.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Pride, Triumph, Doe

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon - all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beauty, Education, Stress

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.94

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• I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Self, Inheritance

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.271, Cambridge University Press

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• When you say your Rosary, the angels rejoice, the Blessed Trinity delights in it, my Son finds joy in it too, and I myself am happier than you can possibly guess. After the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, there is nothing in the Church that I love as much as the Rosary.

  Alanus de Rupe

  Christian, Blessed, Angel

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• Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

  William of Conches

  Society, Toil, Probity

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• I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

  Lord Acton

  Fighting, Rights, Civilization

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• Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!

  Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

  Sea, Land, Voice

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• Blacks are supposed to rejoice whenever our way of life becomes more mainstream. We seldom do. For we see in it a sanctioning that can only be granted by white society. In other words: If you're white, it's all right. If you're black, step back.

  Lena Williams

  White, Racism, Black

  Lena Williams (2002). “It's the Little Things: Everyday Interactions that Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races”, p.184, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare.

  Margaret Drabble

  Discovery, Play, Would Be

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• Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.

  Henri Matisse

  Running, Good Day, Fog

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• Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.

  Esaias Tegner

  Beautiful, Truth, Heart

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• One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out. It is eternally flowing from use to use, beauty to yet higher beauty; and we soon cease to lament waste and death, and rather rejoice and exult in the imperishable, unspendable wealth of the universe.

  John Muir

  Nature, Lying, Learning

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.296, Library of America

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• Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Strong, Ocean

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.10, Taylor Trade Publications

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• The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our fathers left unfinished shall be brought forth with shoutings and cries of grace unto it, when our now drooping Liberty lifts up her head and prospers, happy will he be who can say, with John Milton, "Among those who have something more than wished her welfare, I, too, have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs."

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Father, Reality, America

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1888). “Old portraits and modern sketches”

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• HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Dark, Despair, Reason

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• And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Pride, Vanity

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• If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.

  Subhash Kak

  Heart, Loss, Understanding

  "The Loom of Time: On the Recursive Nature of Reality". Book by Subhash Kak, 2016.

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• A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Heart, Joy, Boisterous

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• Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us with diabolical feelings to himself. It is he who wins when his own methods are used against himself...A continual denunciation of evil and its agents merely encourages its growth in the world a truth sufficiently revealed in the Gospels, but to which we are persistently blind.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Spiritual, Attitude, Character

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• We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.

  Saint Augustine

  Spiritual, Knows

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• Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

  Will Durant

  Thinking, Library, Mankind

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• No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.

  Booth Tarkington

  Heart, People, Heaven

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.64, Booklassic

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