Quotes About Delight

God did not need to create you, but he chose to create you for his own enjoyment. You exist for his benefit, his glory, his purpose, and his delight.

What's life worth if you can't have some fun?

I said, What is that smell? A man's voice answered me. He said, That's cake, darling. I liked that answer very much. I think that cake is a very good word, in general, and that people should use it as answers to questions more often.

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.

It's nice that you enjoy cooking. I happen to enjoy eating.

Everyone needs things that serve no greater purpose than to make them happy.

O deleite transformou-se em tolerância, depois em impaciência e muitas vezes, mais para o fim, em desprezo.

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

When you focus on delighting an audience you care about, you strip the masses of their power.

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

There is no beauty like a face with a joyful smile.

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His 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.

Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.

Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.

It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore but a supreme delight.

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

Don't do anything for pleasure that you don't enjoy.

Read ecologically, the psalm [Ps 104] claims God's biophilia as a model for humanity's role and presence in the world. Delighting in creation has nothing to do with exploiting the world for the common greed. Rather, it has all to do with receiving the world's abundance for the common good, a sufficiency to be shared, not hoarded.

God's active delight in creation only heightens human agency in behalf of creation, for it all comes down to this: to feed the flame of biophilia, both God's and ours, we must preserve and sustain creation's biodiversity. If Leviathan falls, then so do we all.

What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

When daisies pied and violets blue,And lady-smocks all silver-white,And cuckoo-buds of yellow hueDo paint the meadows with delight,The cuckoo then, on every tree,Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo;Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear,Unpleasing to a married ear!

A merrier man,Within the limit of becoming mirth,I never spent an hour's talk withal.

Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?Sweets with sweet war not, joy delights in joy.