Gladdest Thing Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself ...

Thomas Aquinas

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

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

#6. But we must keep steadily in mind that no people were ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Kenneth Koch

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

Shelby Foote

#9. If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

Michael Gurian

#10. 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

#11. The Bible is the most inspired book of all times.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. I wouldn't necessarily be star-struck. I haven't been yet. But I don't know what happens in the future - maybe one day I will be. You never know.

Henry Cavill

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

Jean Paul

#14. 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

#15. I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.

Sylvia Day

#16. Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye

Jackie Kennedy

#17. You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said.
The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said. I don't. I think people are the same from the day God first made one.

Cormac McCarthy

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

Franklin P. Adams

#19. Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

Morgan Freeman

#20. He follows a man with a rolled up mattress strapped to his back. When he stepped down from the train into the brutalising glare of the searchlights in the marshalling yard he noticed two SS soldiers pointing at this man and laughing.

Glenn Haybittle