#rejoice

I only know what it is that's wrong with him; not why it is." And what is it?" asked Lucy fearfully, expecting some harrowing tale. The old trouble; things won't fit." What things?" The things of the universe. It's quite true. They don't." Oh Mr. Emerson, whatever do you mean?" In his ordinary voice, so that she scarcely realized he was quoting poetry, he said: "'From far, from eve and morning, And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: here am I." George and I both know this, but why does it distress him? We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all of life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us rather love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world of sorrow. ↗

— E.M. Forster

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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. ↗

— Golda Meir

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I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

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Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ↗

— Epictetus

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Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly. ↗

— Jim Elliot

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Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God. ↗

— Alfred Day Hershey

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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. ↗

— Martin Luther

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