“... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.”
“Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in the Bible] to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - SOME.”
“This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
“All god wants us to do is do what he asks us to do.”
“every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.”
“We seem to think that God wants us to give up things!... God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having ---- viz., life with Himself.”