Delight Quotes
O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You.
Rabia BasriRabia Basri Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats I am very busy delighting in the lord. The lord is very busy with the desires of my heart.
Carisa DownsCarisa Downs The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life’s most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.
Lewis GrizzardLewis Grizzard To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
Gottfried LeibnizGottfried Leibniz To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross Fire delight burning bright, full of beauty glimmering ruby.
Clare GuintuClare Guintu But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight.
Adrian RogersAdrian Rogers The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards It’s Satan’s delight to tell me that once he’s got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God.
Alan RedpathAlan Redpath 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.
Watchman NeeWatchman Nee You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
Pema ChodronPema Chodron We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
George EliotGeorge Eliot My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
CatullusCatullus