Quotes of: Delighting Keyword

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize ...

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

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of G...

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

Compare with me, ye women, if you can

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, Or, Severall Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight: Wherein Especially Is Contained a Compleat Discourse and Description of the Four Elements, Constitutions, Ages of Man, ...

My love is such that rivers cannot quench

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, Or, Severall Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight: Wherein Especially Is Contained a Compleat Discourse and Description of the Four Elements, Constitutions, Ages of Man, ...

It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together... then the very least you can do is try to make your act entertaining.

We Laugh, We Cry, We Cook: A Mom and Daughter Dish about the Food That Delights Them and the Love That Binds Them

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy ...

Gene Roddenberry

Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd /Labor, as to debar when we need /Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,/ food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse/Of looks and smiles, for smiles from Reason flow,/To brutes denied, and are of Love t...

John Milton

A Parting Guest What delightful hosts are they— Life and Love! Lingeringly I turn away, This late hour, yet glad enough They have not withheld from me Their high hospitality. So, with face lit with delight And all gratitude, I stay Yet to press the...

James Whitcomb Riley

Colonel Brandon: Miss Dashwood, Miss Marianne - I come to issue an invitation. A picnic on my estate at Delaford if you would care to join us on Thursday next. Mrs. Jennings daughter and her husband are traveling up especially. Elinor Dashwood: We sh...

Sense and Sensibility

I delight in what I fear.

Shirley Jackson

A lonely impulse of delight

W.B. Yeats

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

Daniel Boone

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Julia Margaret Cameron

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Gail Sheehy

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Johann Sebastian Bach

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

John Gay

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both to...

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories

I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten Abbey Crunch will remain forever on my lips. I loved the biscuit as much as anything ...

Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at the Table

There is a charm in Solitude that cheers A feeling that the world knows nothing of A green delight the wounded mind endears After the hustling world is broken off Whose whole delight was crime at good to scoff Green solitude his prison pleasure yield...

John Clare: Selected Poetry and Prose