Worthless is the nation
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor. Friedrich Schiller
Gladness
Where your deep gladness
Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling. Frederick Buechner
. . . [T]o
. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness. Frederick Buechner
The kind of work
The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done….the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet Frederick Buechner
Listen to your life.
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 holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. … Read more
The place God calls
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. Frederick Buechner
If we endure all
If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy. Francis of Assisi
Every year, I might
Every year, I might almost say every day, that I live, I seem to see more clearly how all the rest and gladness and power of our Christian life hinges on one thing; and that is, taking God at His word, believing that He really means exactly what He says, and accepting the very words … Read more
Carols of gladness ring
Carols of gladness ring from every tree. Fanny Kemble
If it does not
If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it. Douglas Wilson