Delight Quotes

To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.

He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.

God delights in revealing Himself to you when you are bold enough to bother Him. In fact, I think He would say that the only thing that bothers Him is when you don’t come to Him.

Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.

Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!

You change people by delight, by pleasure.

The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

Energy is eternal delight.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

'Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.

I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

In the embers shining bright A garden grows for thy delight, With roses yellow, red, and white. But, O my child, beware, beware! Touch not the roses growing there, For every rose a thorn doth bear.

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas - cause that's what He's getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide to those in need, revealing the path to many.

The Eucharist, behold the Christian's treasure, his delight on earth. Since Jesus is in the Eucharist for him personally, his whole life ought to be drawn to it like a magnet to its center.

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.

I am a beautiful flower that is blossoming more and more each day. I delight in my world, and my world delights in me.

Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.

And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?

The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings

May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.'

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.

It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight.