Quotes About Delight

In Florence I rebelled and told her that frankly I thought her Fra Angelico rather mawkish. Then I corrected myself and said "naive." She didn't deny it, on the contrary, she was delighted; it couldn't be naïve enough for her. What I enjoyed was campari!

Maybe your family is more drama than delight, more crazy than kind? I can't say that your family will ever understand or bless you, but I know God will. Let God give you what your family doesn't. If your earthly family doesn't support you, then let your heavenly one take its place.

Their faces shone with the delight of their souls.

You can have all the cupcakes you want.

Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

Meaning, I'm your favorite snack?

There she saw the tiny princess, the fairest of the (is) land, sitting on her rickety throne, her hair as blue as the ocean, eyes as dark as night, and lips as pink as roses. Her hair was pulled back from her face in a pretty V-braid, and she laughed in delight at the array of marvels before her. The

feels so damn good?

Oh! Yes! Please!" she breathed. What followed was definitely the best day of Suki's life.

Peck defines community as the coming together of a group of individuals, 'who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationship go deeper than the masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to rejoice together, mourn together, and to delight in each other, and make other's conditions our own.

Um cínico disse uma vez a G.K. Chesterton, o romancista e ensaísta britânico: "Abençoado seja aquele que nada espera, pois não ficará decepcionado." A réplica de Chesterton? "Abençoado seja aquele que nada espera, pois se deliciará com tudo.

Are you selling something?" "Only happiness.

T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

But without going to such extremes prudence may easily involve the loss of some of the best things in life. The worshipper of Dionysus reacts against prudence. In intoxication, physical or spiritual, he recovers an intensity of feeling which prudence had destroyed; he finds the world full of delight and beauty, and his imagination is suddenly liberated from the prison of every-day preoccupations

It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life, and that unless the contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs. But I do not believe that such contemplation on the whole tends to happiness. It gives moments of delight, but these are outweighed by years of effort and depression.

Do not despise the LORD'S instruction … for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, just as a father, the son he delights in. Proverbs 3:11–12

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became a delight to me and the joy of my heart. Jeremiah 15:16

Then you will delight yourself in the Lord, and I will make you ride over the heights of the land. Isaiah 58:14

He will pray to God, and God will delight in him. That man will behold His face with a shout of joy. Job 33:26

I will meditate on Your precepts and think about Your ways. I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word. Psalm 119:15–16

Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart's desires. Psalm 37:4

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

We all have human feelings, emotions, and thoughts. If we don't spend time with the Lord, we become dominated by them. But when we spend time with God, our unforgiveness, doubt, lust, hate, anxiety, and sadness becomes forgiveness, faith, purity, love, peace, and joy. When we delight ourselves in the Lord, He gives us the desires of our heart. When we commit our ways to the Lord and trust in Him, He brings our desires to pass as we pray about them (Psalm 37:4-5).