Delight Quotes - Page 9

May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.'

There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm. "It's green!" Nico said with delight.

The Eucharist, behold the Christian's treasure, his delight on earth. Since Jesus is in the Eucharist for him personally, his whole life ought to be drawn to it like a magnet to its center.

Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas - cause that's what He's getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

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

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity.

As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.

Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others.

Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.