Delight Quotes
1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors
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We don't honor just to get a reward; we honor because it is the heart of God, and it is our delight.
— John Bevere
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Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder have created a compelling vision for a Clean Tech Nation and a roadmap for creating it, even as they surprise…
— Ralph Cavanagh
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Do not despair, dear heart, but come to the Lord with all your jagged wounds, black bruises, and running sores. He alone can heal, and…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that…
— Anthony de Mello
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Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.
— Unknown Author
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Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not…
— John Owen
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Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
— Brother Lawrence
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence --…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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God is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to God. What are our…
— Dallas Willard
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Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
— Thomas Kinkade
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Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
— Richard Rolle
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You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.
— Sergei Parajanov
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To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
— Egerton Brydges
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Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.
— Jane Grigson
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He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another.
— Deepak Chopra
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Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our…
— Wendell Berry
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God expects you not simply to face the future; He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it and…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the…
— Denis de Rougemont
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God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations…
— Roger Ebert
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Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape,…
— Marianne Williamson
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It's a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You!
— Michael Beckwith
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