Delight Quotes

Take interest and even delight in doing the small things well.

It’s a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You!

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

I asked god, “why do we sin?” God replied, “The roses in the garden smell delightfully, but in your vase, they rot, just like people in conditions that don’t belong to them.”

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.