Quotes of: Delight Keyword

Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.

Day Watch

The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

Nathan Myhrvold

As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

Yo-Yo Ma

Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted." This was my mantra when I published my first book in 1990, and still holds true. When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometime...

SARK

A wise man governs his eyes, not because it is wrong to delight in beauty, but because otherwise his delight may suffer transmutation into something very different.

On the Meaning of Sex

Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss.

The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis

Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.

The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

When one loves knowingly, when one loves consciously, with full knowledge, with full understanding, the delights of a person in love are nothing in comparison with the delights of love that sprouts only from the spirit.

Judas Iscariot The Flight of the Feathered Serpent

Nobody: Every night and every morn, some to misery are born. Every morn and every night, some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight; some are born to endless night.

Dead Man

Sultan: Prince Ali Ababwa! Of course! I'm delighted to meet you. [he shakes Aladdin's hand] Sultan: This is my royal vizier, Jafar. He's delighted, too. Jafar: [very dryly] Ecstatic.

Aladdin

Lord, deliver us from what we . Give us some new desires, the weirder the better.

The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted

Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.

#Workout: Games, Tools & Practices to Engage People, Improve Work, and Delight Clients

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

John Piper

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.

Gene Roddenberry

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.

Refusing Heaven

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.

The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

Even spiritually advanced people are often confused. They feel an inner ecstasy which comes from the vital world, and they think this is the real delight. But it is not so. Real delight comes from the highest world to the soul, and from the soul it s...

Sri Chinmoy

Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

C.S. Lewis

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Bernard Tschumi

Praise be to God, Who has so disposed matters that pleasant literary anecdotes may serve as an instrument for the polishing of wits and the cleansing of rust from our hearts.

The Delight of Hearts: Or What You Will Not Find in Any Book