I do not doubt that services like social games and coupons bring delight to peoples lives, and I mean no disrespect to… — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
Worship is not about my enjoyment. It is about my enjoyment of God. It is not about my pleasure or my delight… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a means for us to persuade a reluctant God to do something which is against His better judgment. Prayer,… — John F Walvoord Copy Share Image
Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction;… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as… — Jeffrey R. Holland 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
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
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
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
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
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
Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and… — Rick DeMarinis Copy Share Image
Men of Science would do well to talk plain English. The most abstruse questions can very well be discussed in our own… — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again,… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
God doesn't want religious duty. He doesn't want a distracted, half-hearted, 'Fine, I'll read a chapter...now are You happy?' attitude. God wants… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
“There was no such thing as arguing with delight. Like seeing a pretty girl with the sunlight in her hair, like pancakes… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In the embers shining bright A garden grows for thy delight, With roses yellow, red, and white. But, O my child, beware,… — Richard Watson Gilder Copy Share Image
The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties… — John Lighton Synge Copy Share Image
Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
