Delight Quotes - Page 4

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as a painter, but finish my work as a sculptor taking delight in caressing the forms.

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

What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!

Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.

My heart swelled with uncontrollable delight.

Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.

This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him

The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?

Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.

We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

Don't lose sight of user delight.

Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.