Quotes about Delights

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

The wicked have told me of delights, but not such as Thy law, O Lord.

Times lose no time; nor do they roll idly by; through our senses they work strange operations on the mind. Behold, they went and came day by day, and by coming and going, introduced into my mind other imaginations and other remembrances; and little by little patched me up again with my old kind of delights, unto which that my sorrow gave way.

The Lord is fine-tuned to the hates and loves, disappointments and delights, brokenness and togetherness, the fears, joys, and sorrows of each of us.

Such strains as would have won the ear of Pluto, to have quite set free his half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee, I mean to live.

conversion is the creation of new desires, not just new duties; new delights, not just new deeds; new treasures, not just new tasks.

The true dimensions of a soul are seen in its delights. Not what we dutifully will but what we passionately want reveals our excellence or evil.

Doubtless the happiness of the saints in heaven shall be so great, that the very majesty of God shall be exceedingly shown in the greatness, and magnificence, and fullness of their enjoyments and delights.

God, and she was changed. As commentator Matthew Henry eloquently described this scene, "Those who, through grace, are brought to experience the delights of communion with God will say that the one-half was not told them of the pleasures of Wisdom's ways."26

Recreations for a student must be especially for the exercise of his body, he having before him such variety of delights for his mind; and they must be as whetting is with the mower, only to be used so far as is necessary to his work.

The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths. Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

God alone is the Fountain of Life. Without Him there could be neither life nor joy, neither abundance nor delights.