Delight Quotes - Page 8

Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.

When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in God's presence; it is that I have failed by seeking pleasure through godless ways or by resisting God's provision for me because it is not what I want.

It is delightful some times to sit with an ingenious friend, He understands you before you having said anything.

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.

Christ greatly delights in his people and they greatly delight in him

All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

No life can be dreary when work is delight.

God delights in revealing Himself to you when you are bold enough to bother Him. In fact, I think He would say that the only thing that bothers Him is when you don’t come to Him.

Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.

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

To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.

Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.

The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.

Worship is not about my enjoyment. It is about my enjoyment of God. It is not about my pleasure or my delight or my satisfaction. It is about my pleasure, delight, and satisfaction in God. Worship is not simply about glorifying God. It is about glorifying God by enjoying Him forever.

Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, Tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. The name of the story will be Time, But you must not pronounce its name. Tell me a story of deep delight.

We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

'Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight.

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.