Delight Quotes

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

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.

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.

You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.

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.

My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

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.

Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.