Quotes About Delight

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Something will catch your attention and give you a reason to smile.

Pie...it fills the cracks of the heart. Go away, pain.

I think, Lillian, that when we do not pause to admire God's wonderful handiwork in putting this world together, we disappoint Him. Surely He must delight in our wonder when we delight in His creation.

How much are you enjoying yourself, tiger moth?

God delights in beauty, Islam teaches at its core, and is beauty. Beauty is in creation, not destruction, and in balance. It is in the human intellect and the human heart and in their powers to apply sacred text towards creation and knowledge that edifies and enlivens.

There was no time for chit-chat when there were chocolate chip pancakes to be eaten.

We are outside again, walking, when he takes a bite and stops dead. "Wow," he says after a minute. Then, "Wow," again. I smile. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his.

Of course the play as I wrote it amounted to nothing; but in weaving the plot through successive scenes, and in writing out some of the dialogues, I enjoyed the full bliss of literary creation. Never to have tasted this delight is never to have known one of the greatest joys of life.

When my faith was weak, all this would have seemed incomprehensible to me. I was afraid as a child is of the night. But now I have conquered it, and it is mine. I experience joy in night, navigating upon it as upon the sea. The night is no longer my enemy, nor does it make me afraid. On the contrary, its darkness and divine transcendence are a source of delight.

Are we having fun yet

Cavort, dear, just cavort

We're doing coffee ice cream with chocolate sauce and shortbread cookies for dessert. Want some?

I've made some feuillantines ," he tells us with a dramatic rising of his eyes heavenward, indicating bliss. "Thin slivers of wafer flavored with ginger, clove, nutmeg and cinnamon." We coo our approval. "You have to try them." Quite frankly, who are we to argue?

the most potent reward for parenthood I have known has been delight in my fully grown progeny. They are friends with an extra dimension of affection. True, there is also an extra dimension of resentment on the children's part, but once offspring are in their thirties, their ability to love their parents, perhaps in contemplation of the deaths to come, expands, and, if one is fortunate, grudges recede. []p. 209]

chuckled. "Oh, boy.

I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.

I never was so immensely tickled by anything I had ever said before. I actually woke up twice during the night, and laughed till the bed shook.

As we read on a daily basis, growing in our skill in Bible reading, the rhythm of a life lived deeply in God's Word will become as nurturing as our daily meals, as spiritually strengthening as daily exercise, and as emotionally satisfying as a good-morning kiss from a spouse. It takes discipline, but Bible reading can come to be a discipline of delight if we open our hearts and lives to it.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice...

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.

I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.