The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning. — Anna Neagle Copy Share Image
Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then… — Fernand Point Copy Share Image
For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights. — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
When you say your Rosary, the angels rejoice, the Blessed Trinity delights in it, my Son finds joy in it too, and… — Alanus de Rupe Copy Share Image
To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate… — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The man who knows the delight of the love of God ? when the soul warmed by grace, loves both God and… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age!… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Satan's aim is to destroy our joy and trust and delight in God, and to make God look worthless in the world's… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds,… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“It is not presumptuous to ask, 'What is it that you see in me that brings you delight?” — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
Faith in God engenders a love for the Sabbath; faith in the Sabbath engenders a love for God. A sacred Sabbath truly… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs… — James Salter Copy Share Image
God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights. — Richard Barnfield Copy Share Image
The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
