THOUGHTS WORTH REJOICING OVER

 
Here is a list of favorite quotes that lead me to want to rejoice as a disciple.  After all, it is “Gaudete Sunday”…
 
Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you [falsely] because of me.  Rejoice and be glad… (Matthew 5:11-12a)
 
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say: rejoice!  Your kindness should be known to all.  The Lord is near.  (Philippians 4:4-5)
 
And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple—amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward.  (Matthew 10:42)
 
Sin was behoovable [necessary], but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.  (Mother Julian of Norwich, “Revelations of Divine Love #27)
 
Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed.  We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.  (I John 3:2)
 
It is only with the heart that one sees correctly.  What is essential is invisible to the eye.  (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, “The Little Prince”)
 
You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.  (St Augustine, “Confessions” I, i)
 
It is better to heal with promises than to promise healing.  (Calvin Miller, “The Philippian Fragment”)
 
Do this in memory of me.  (Luke 22:19; I Corinthians 11:24, 25)
 
All find what they truly seek.  (CS Lewis, “The Last Battle”—cf Matthew 7:7-8)
 
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son… (John 3:16)
 
Receive the Holy Spirit.  Whose sins you shall forgive are forgiven… (John 20:22-23a)
 
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  (I Corinthians 15:57)
 
She will bear [you] a son and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.  (Matthew 1:21)
 
Even now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, because I make up in my body what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ, for the sake of his body, the Church.   (Colossians 1:24)