Delight Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

dogs love us unconditionally and cats are big on redemption. Our sins and shortcomings don't bother them as long as we delight in their presence.

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.

Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm. "It's green!" Nico said with delight.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

Faith in God engenders a love for the Sabbath; faith in the Sabbath engenders a love for God. A sacred Sabbath truly is a delight.

Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.

O my God, if Thy creations are so full of beauty, delight and joy, how infinitely more full of beauty, delight and joy art Thou Thyself, Creator of all!

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

Until you have courted the bluebills in the snow, you have not tasted of the purer delights of waterfowling

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

Color has such a friendly appearance, that I always see it with fresh delight, now with all its tints, like the spirits of the light, it nestles in and penetrates all physical forms.

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others.

Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

Angels listen when she speaks; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.