gladness quotes

   Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 30:11.

Jubilate Deo, omnis terra; servite Domino in laetitia. Sing joyfully to God, all the earth; serve the Lord with gladness. See Book of Common Prayer143:66.

-Bible (Vulgate)
Psalm 99:2 (Psalm100:2  Authorized Version).

O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands: serve the Lord with gladness, and come before his presence with a song.

-Book of Common Prayer
Psalm100:1.

There is no event so commonplace but that God is present in it, alwayshiddenly, alwaysleaving you roomto recognize him or not to recognize him† Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the heavenlyand hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

- (Carl) Frederick Buechner
  Now and Then.

   Be riche in patience, gif thow in gudis be pure; Quho levis mirry, he levis michtely: Without glaidnes availis no tresour.

- Alexandre, pe'  re Dumas
early 16c 'No Tressour Availis without Glaidnes', l.22^4.

   I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor mortis conturbat me.

- Alexandre, pe'  re Dumas
c.1505  'Lament for the Makaris', stanza1. The Latin is from the Office for the Dead:'The fear of death disturbs me'.

Stale is their gladness who were never sad.

- Charles Harpur
'Sonnet XIII', collected in C  W Salier (ed) Rosa: Love Sonnets to Mary Doyle (1949).

Si tengo la fortuna de que con tu alma mi dolor se integre, te dire   entre melanco  lico y alegre las singulares cosas de la luna. If I am fortunate enough for your soul to mix with my sorrow, I will tell you, half with melancholy, half with gladness, Unique things about the moon.

- Leopoldo Lugones
  Lunario sentimental,'Divagacio   n lunar' ('Lunar digression').

Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow The world should listen thenas I am listening now.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'To a Skylark', stanza 21.

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride. Of him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough along the mountainside: By our own spirits are we deified. We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof comes in the end despondencyand madness.

-William Wordsworth
  Of the poetThomas Chatterton, who committed suicide at the age of17.'Resolution and Independence', stanza 7 (published1807).