“I am very busy delighting in the lord. The lord is very busy with the desires of my heart.”

Hold a little while longer. God is bringing clarity.

To the honey I said, You don’t know what it is to be made of so much goodness, yet in a hollow be so hidden.

She Smells Like The rare oils of hope and Faith. She is a fragrance and incense that even the angels can sense.

What some have called rejection, I have called a door and that has made all the difference.

Today I am imagining the best things that could happen.

God likes your participation. Don’t let pressure and perfection paralyze you.

How much I daydream about heaven and how much I believe I’m going there are probably directly proportional.

There will always be a reason not to pray.

I sought the lord and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

I’m either about to fail miserably or I’m about to have a huge break through and to be honest that’s my sweet spot or something.

I don’t need to see how, I just need to know you.

I know that you are annoyed with me because of how holy you are and because your sacrifice has not made me holy, too.

Don’t self protect from your miracle.

Stop believing in worlds not made by his words.

I ask jesus for the smallest things, because it turns out he cares about everything.

You thought it wouldn’t live again. But it will live again.

The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, – this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.

The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.

I am delighted to be at the heart of this team of radical reformers in Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Nick Boles and many others. It’s a team I believe will deliver the change Britain needs.

Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.