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Quotes About Rejoicing

the diverse individuals in the community are no longer incentives for talking and judging and condemning, and thus excuses for self-justification. They are rather cause for rejoicing in one another and serving one another.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Your primary calling is to worship ... to pursue celebration and rejoicing as a way of life.
~ Graham Cooke
Life is one long jubilee.
~ Ira Gershwin
Now just as God lets out a great deal of his power in working miracles in smaller things, so he lets out a great deal of goodness and mercy, in comforting and rejoicing the hearts of his people, in little things, as well as in great.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
He leaned against the wall and folded his hands, quietly rejoicing in unexpected blessings—the company of a friend, a new purpose, pure water. Even knowing the date of his death was a blessing, for it would bring an end to his pain. To everything, there was a season . . .
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer. – Romans 12:12
~ Robert J. Morgan
Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Worship plays a major role in the Christian daily life. Throughout Scripture we see worship from David dancing before the Lord to Jesus rejoicing in the Spirit.
~ T. D. Jakes
Em casa de seo Assis Wababa, me deram trato regozijante. No que jantei, ri, conversei.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. PSALM 30:5
~ Anne Graham Lotz
No one is any longer carried away by the desire for the good to perform great things, no one is precipitated by evil into atrocious sins, and so there is nothing for either the good or the bad to talk about, and yet for that very reason people gossip all the more, since ambiguity is tremendously stimulating and much more verbose than rejoicing over goodness or repentance over evil.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Who could blame the citizens of Massachusetts for rejoicing when spring is so close at hand? Winter in New England is merciless and cruel, a season that instills a particular melancholy in its residents and a hopelessness that is all but impossible to shake.
~ Alice Hoffman
News of the death of James V on 14 December gave even further cause for rejoicing, because his heir was a week-old girl, the infant Mary, Queen of Scots. Scotland would be subject to yet another weakening regency—it had endured six during the past 150 years—and should give no further trouble.
~ Alison Weir
Athletes, he believed, were simple, straightforward people, cruel and brutal if you like, but never petty. They knocked you down and hurt you, and then went on their way rejoicing.
~ E.M. Forster
I was thinking of the new future that our Communist science is opening to us," he said. "Our people are fully aware of that," Dr. Han Tse said rapidly. "Ever since we exploded our first bomb there has been happiness and rejoicing everywhere.
~ Romain Gary
Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
Rejoicing is grounded in gratitude, with a keen appreciation for yourself, others, your abundance, and the beauty around you.
~ Susan C. Young
Each day should be a day of rejoicing. Give thanks and celebrate in all things
~ Mensah Oteh
Let waiting be our work, as it is His. And, if His waiting is nothing but goodness and graciousness, let ours be nothing but a rejoicing in that goodness, and a confident expectancy of that grace. And, let every thought of waiting become to us the simple expression of unmingled and unutterable blessedness, because it brings us to a God who waits that He may make Himself known to us perfectly as the gracious One.   My soul, wait thou only upon God!
~ Andrew Murray
And so, especially in any work you do for God, abide in Jesus as your wisdom. We are created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God bath before ordained that we should walk in them; let all fear or doubt lest we should not know exactly what these works are, be put far away. In Christ we are created for them: He will show us what they are, and how to do them. Cultivate the habit of rejoicing in the assurance that the divine wisdom is guiding you, even where you do not yet see the way.
~ Andrew Murray
It was all as it had been, except for the weight of the present, that scuttled the pact we made with heaven. In truth there was no cause for rejoicing, nor need to turn around, either. We were lost just by standing, listening to the hum of wires overhead.
~ John Ashbery
Love is pain and Life is suffering; but if a person defines these terms as pleasure and rejoicing, then the people should be insightfully understanding about his/her actual ways and real meaning of loving and living.
~ Anuj Somany
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche