Gladdest Quotes

#1. Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.

Frederick Buechner

#2. I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.

Marcel Proust

#3. And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

Franklin P. Adams

#4. Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

Richard Francis Burton

#5. Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.

Jean Paul

#6. The hardest, gladdest thing in the world is to cry Father! from a full heart . . . the refusal to look up to God as our father is the one central wrong in the whole human affair; the inability, the one central misery.

John Eldredge

#7. Eddie Izzard is doing his show in French ... Will he be able to fake ad-lib as well in other languages? He's been speaking French for a while now, but he's talking about doing his act in German. Haven't the German people suffered enough?

Andy Kindler

#8. Frederick Buechner writes, Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is gooder than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all.

Philip Yancey

#9. It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

Fred Rogers

#10. Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.

David Novak

#11. A combination of all that was best in the gladdest days of the departing year ...

Shelby Foote

#12. Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom.

Francis George

#13. The uniform of the gladdest malt is its sureness.

Kenneth Koch

#14. Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

#15. I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.

Lauren Bacall