Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.
Christ greatly delights in his people and they greatly delight in him
Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.
Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.
A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?
Boredom is the consciousness of repetition. Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel the repetition. The buffalo goes on eating the same grass every day with the same delight. You cannot. How can you eat the same grass with the same delight? You get fed up.
God is not in love with some future version of you. It’s not you tomorrow that He loves and delights in. It’s not you when you get your act together. . . . If you believe that Christ’s love for you is a future love for you, then you dismiss the cross of Christ.
Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much. . . . I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.
God created me to delight people with my goals.
Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.