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Quotes About Delight

When you are rightly related to God, it is a life of freedom and liberty and delight; you are God's will, and all your commonsense decisions are His will for you.
~ Oswald Chambers
Have I been persecuting Jesus by a zealous determination to serve Him in my own way? If I feel I have done my duty and yet have hurt Him in doing it, I may be sure it was not my duty, because it has not fostered the meek and quiet spirit, but the spirit of self-satisfaction. We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord—"I delight to do Thy will, O My God.
~ Oswald Chambers
Our Lord makes a disciple His own possession, He becomes responsible for him. "Ye shall be witnesses unto Me." The spirit that comes in is not that of doing anything for Jesus, but of being a perfect delight to Him. The secret of the missionary is—I am His, and He is carrying out His enterprises through me.
~ Oswald Chambers
Lord God Omnipotent, how my soul delights to know that Thou dost care for sparrows and numberest the hairs of our head! Lord, breathe on me till I am in the frame of mind and body to worship Thee.
~ Oswald Chambers
then God withdrew His conscious blessings in order to teach you to walk by faith. You are worth far more to Him now than you were in your days of conscious delight and thrilling testimony.
~ Oswald Chambers
All great discoveries and inventions spring from the delight of strong men in victory. They are expressions of personality and not of the utilitarian thinking of the masses, who are merely spectators of the event, but must take its consequences whatever they may be.
~ Oswald Spengler
In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.
~ Ovid
Anything that's good is better with whipped cream.
~ Unknown
Of this he was certain: to be in her presence was to know delight in a more vivid sense than ever he had before.
~ Unknown
Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.
~ Patricia Briggs
pleasure you want. Use
~ Unknown
You're my safe harbor in an endless stormy sea. You're my shady willow on a sunny day. You're sweet music in a distant room. You're unexpected cake on a rainy day. You're my bright penny on the roadside, you are worth more than the moon on the long night walk. You are sweet wine in my mouth, a song in my throat and laughter in my heart.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Daisies, simple and sweet. Daisies are the way to win my heart.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
You are unexpected cake on a rainy afternoon.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
fields. I found myself grinning for no good reason, save that I was happy.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
No hay nada mejor en el mundo que la dulce sonrisa de una mujer joven.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
He flashed a huge smile, one of absolute joy, from a place of no beginning or end.
~ Patti Smith
May the world's small things fill her with delight.
~ Patti Smith
And that's finally all anyone wants out of a book- to be amused
~ Paul Auster
If you suffer for something that gives delight, soon the suffering itself can give joy.
~ Paul Bloom
Prayer is abandoning my addiction to other glories and delighting in the one glory that is truly glorious-the glory of God
~ Paul David Tripp
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
~ Paul Engle
cuisse de grenouilles provençale.
~ Paul Levine
Just watching my cats can make me happy.
~ Paula Cole