Quotes about Delight

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts…Beyond the range of human intellect.

If counseling is to be restored to the church, affection must be restored to reflection. If counseling is to be restored to the church, delight in God must be restored to doctrines about God. Savoring Christ must be restored to seeing Christ. Tender contrition must be restored to tough conviction. Communication with God must be restored to contending for God.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

I adore dark chocolate.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.

All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.