Delight Quotes
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.
Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.
A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
JIBO isn't an appliance, it's a companion, one that can interact and react with its human owners in ways that delight instead of disturb.
To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight.
Whenever you're working towards something greater than yourself, it's almost a selflessness that the Lord delights in when you're serving your teammate or your friend or your sister in Christ.
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.
We don't honor just to get a reward; we honor because it is the heart of God, and it is our delight.
Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.
I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.
...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.
Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.
Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.
The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.
This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.
Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.
Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him
