Quotes About Delight

King is delighted. He ask one old woman walking by if she wasn't too old for this, ask her if her feet not tired. My feet is tired she say, but my soul is rested.

Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down by the mail-coach; more truly I could announce my discovery that delight could be contained in small octavos and small type, in a bookshelf three feet long.

The Scriptures are the transcript of the Father's will, and that was ever His delight.

What was there in me that could merit esteem,   Or give the Creator delight? 'Twas even so, Father, I ever must sing,   Because it seemed good, in Thy sight.

There must be a true delight in the purity which the law inculcates, for this is the only effectual preparation for obedience. So long as the law of God utters its voice to us from without only, so long as there is no sympathy in the soul with its demands, so long as the heart is alienated from its spirituality, there can be no obedience. worthy of the name.

I say that it's the joy that others take in me, It's this that is the cause of my delight.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

For him life is an endless joy, a perpetual delight, a mad intoxication. Not all seems good to him, for suffering, which must often come to those he loves and to himself, cruelly contradicts his optimism. But all is beautiful to him because he walks forever in the light of spiritual truth.

It's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen." He laughed. "No, honey, that would be you.

The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.

The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it.

When we talk about good books, we often talk about good sentences, but what we rarely talk about is reader pleasure. Yet it is reader pleasure that is going to make a book break out into the kind of success that makes it into a household name.

Directing Mr. Mohanlal was a delight. He's completely there and wanting to know what you want him to do. He's very keen on making sure the director's vision is realised.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

I love learning about the science that governs the universe around us and want to share the delight of discovering how things work and why.

Believe me, any time chocolate is in a 50-foot radius, I am the first one to grab a piece and eat it!

Celebrations are great fun: bunting and this and that and the other.

It's great fun to try to entertain.

Entertainment is such a great job to have.

My guilty pleasure is definitely candy! Skittles are my favourite.

At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day.

The one thing I ask of the Lord — the thing I seek most — is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord's perfections. —Psalm 27:4