A Quote by Theodore Roethke

And I rejoiced in being what I was.

Theodore Roethke

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Theodore Roethke
American - Poet
May 25, 1908 - August 1, 1963

The early Christians made it a part of their religion to look for His return. Backward they looked to the cross and the atonement for sin, and rejoiced in Christ crucified. Upward they looked to Christ at the right hand of God, and rejoiced in Christ interceding. Forward they looked to the promised return of their Master, and rejoiced in the thought that they would see Him again. And we ought to do the same.

J. C. Ryle

God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

Jonathan Edwards

No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness. With no selfish or partial joy but for the sake of the law they rejoiced, for creation engulfed in the ocean of pain was now to obtain release.

Gautama Buddha

... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.

D. H. Lawrence

She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.

Elisabeth Elliot

When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne

...I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me

Gene Wolfe

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

Louisa May Alcott

The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.

Ebenezer Elliott

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

Petrarch

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

Karl Philipp Moritz

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

Teresa of Avila

By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.

Michael Moore

I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer.