Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
It's a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You!
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved. . . I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.
Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!
Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.
Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.
Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend.
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?
Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home
God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.
To do a blockbuster that isn't stressful is a delight.
If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for no other reason than His presence is a delight to our souls and spirit.
No one can be a good Christian who does not with holy zeal set out to know, delight in, and live by the Word of God!
Teach correctly. . . Find delight in contemplation.
Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country. . . with hope and delight.