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Delight Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
- There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other…
- Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books…
- All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem…
- We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.
- God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
- Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.
- The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial…
- The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when…
- To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were,…
- We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not…
- To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an…
- But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment,…
- The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
- The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an…
- In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to…
More Delight Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
- Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. — Francis Bacon
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that… — Charles Baudelaire
- That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison
- And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy… — Venerable Bede