“People give way to sexual sin because they don’t have fullness of joy and gladness in Jesus.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Being bad is not good but too sad, and being good is not at all bad. Is this simple equation, And that's… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event. — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter. — Madison Cawein Copy Share Image
He has made me glad and no one can make me sad. He makes me shout and no one can make me… — Billy Bray Copy Share Image
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
Now if I appear to be carefree it's only to camouflage my sadness. In order to keep my pride I try to… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Bright shadows of true rest! some shoots of bliss; Heaven once a week; The next world's gladness prepossest in this; A day… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
No one has success until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold activity of energy, enthusiasm and… — Lilian Whiting Copy Share Image
“There is the pain that made me cry, and then there is the strength that made me stop crying. So I am… — Moffat Machingura Copy Share Image
Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“Although your past has been painful devastating or cruel God has promised to be a Restorer and a Redeemer. He says He… — Sue Augustine Copy Share Image
It has worked great good in other communities in the state where it has been honestly and faithfully tried, and I feel… — Thomas Jordan Jarvis Copy Share Image
Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate… — Marion Dudley Cran Copy Share Image
Christians are meant to have the same vocation as their King, that of cross-bearers. It is this conscience of a high calling… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
Come to earth to taste our sadness, He whose glories knew no end. By His life He brings us gladness, our Redeemer,… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
To say that worship is either about glorifying God or finding personal satisfaction is to put asunder what God has joined together.… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments… And then be gone, With gladness in your heart,… — Scott Hastie Copy Share Image
“Oh the gladness of her gladness when she’s glad, And the sadness of her sadness when she’s sad; But the gladness of… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white, So full of gladness and so full of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Christian children all must be Mild, obedient, good as He. . . . . For He is our childhood's pattern, Day by… — Cecil Frances Alexander Copy Share Image
And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Follow Christ in the denial of all the wills of self, and then all is put away that separates you from God;… — William Law Copy Share Image
[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4).… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind Sweeps the broad forest in its summer… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
We are only asking you to give to Christ that which you give to others, to transfer the old emotions, the blessed… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
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