Quotes Tagged "delight"

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.

The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest— Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast.

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.

We are never too old or too wounded to receive healing waves of the personal delight of another. ... at its best, it transcends being delighted with a particular happening and is instead the reflection to us, and often to one another, of an enduring bond that is bigger than any single occurrence between us. When we are small and see that look on our parents faces, there is such an affirmation that we are good, lovable, welcome. These experiences go deep into us and become an implicit foundation for drawing in warm companions throughout our lives.

Your conversations help create your world. Speak of delight, not dissatisfaction. Speak of hope, not despair. Let your words bind up wounds, not cause them.

To desire heaven is to delight in holiness.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

What if we are all temples for the presents and presence of divine delight to shine through?

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep — great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth's magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.