Delights Quotes

350 Delights quotes by 269 unique authors

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… — C.S. Lewis
I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God. — Elizabeth Gilbert
These violent delights have violent ends. — William Shakespeare
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips… — Rollo May
Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to… — Jonathan Stroud
Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to… — Andrew Murray
Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can… — Erwin Schrodinger
Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights her more. It… — Karen Marie Moning
My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners. — Unknown Author
As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would… — Charlotte Bronte
Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated… — Iris Murdoch
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome… — William Shakespeare
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. — Jules Verne
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful. — Virginia Woolf
My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow… — Charlotte Bronte
One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance, the party, the… — J. B. Priestley
And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is time we realize that belief is not a private matter. As a man believes, so he will act. Believe that you are a… — Sam Harris
God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him. — David Platt
We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or… — David Platt
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will… — John Ruskin
I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man… — Bertrand Russell
If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of… — Edwin Way Teale

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