I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
I rejoice in the success of others, knowing that there is plenty for us all.
Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby. . . . I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.
Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.
But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and if we are wise enough to know that there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know, we can reenter paradise.
Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own [will], is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain.
All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken praise. Field and forest, vale and mountain, Flowery meadow, flashing sea, Chanting bird and flowing fountain, Call us to rejoice in Thee.
Greatly ought we to rejoice that God dwells in our soul; and more greatly ought we to rejoice that our soul dwells in God. Our soul is created to be God’s dwelling place, and the dwelling of our souls is God, who is uncreated. It is a great understanding to see and know inwardly that God, who is our Creator, dwells in our soul, and it is a far greater understanding to see and know inwardly that our soul, which is created, dwells in God in substance, of which substance, though God, we are what we are.
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death].
Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven. . . While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.
You are the Self, that perfect immutable Self. Nothing else exists. Nothing else ever existed. Nothing else will ever exist. There is only one Self and you are That. Rejoice!