Quotes about Delight
This some call the "grace of prayer" that is given us by the Holy Ghost, as I suppose improperly, though I will not contend about it; for prayer absolutely and formally is not a peculiar grace distinct from all other graces that are exercised in it, but it is the way and manner whereby we are to exercise all other graces of faith, love, delight, fear, reverence, self-abasement, and the like, unto certain especial ends.
- John Owen
Cudowny miód pÄ™czniaÃ…' w moich pachwinach.
- John Updike
Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!
- John Bunyan
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
- Marcus Aurelius
Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
- Samuel Johnson
Wine enlivens the human soul.
- Euripides
Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.
- Joseph Addison
Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied.
- Samuel Johnson
Psalm 37:4: "Delight yourself in the LORD;8 and He will give you the desires of your heart.
- Mark Batterson
Whatsoever we give the supremacy of the inward man to, whatsoever we love most, whatsoever we trust most, whatsoever we fear most, whatsoever we joy and delight most, whatsoever we obey most—that is our god."117 In the end, one's love indicates one's God118—for no human lives without loving.119
- Mark Dever
Whose heart would not rejoice in its inmost core at hearing these things?
- Martin Luther
The sincerest love is the love of food.
- George Bernard Shaw