Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world. — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Modesty means that you insist that men delight in you at the right time and in the right place and in the… — Andrew M. Greeley Copy Share Image
Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet… — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab. — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a… — Lorraine Anderson Copy Share Image
It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
The Eucharist, behold the Christian's treasure, his delight on earth. Since Jesus is in the Eucharist for him personally, his whole life… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became a delight to me and the joy of my heart. Jeremiah 15:16” — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life. — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The seeking face that will not alter when presented with reason, must delight in its wearer's prideful ignorance.” — Justin Kyle McFarlane Beau Copy Share Image
The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
