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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and delights.
Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.
God delights in providing His people with material gain and comfort, although prosperity can pose a threat to spiritual well-being.
That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.
The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.
The artist enriches the soul of humanity.
The artist delights people with
a thousand different shades of feeling.
If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into.
O You Who are hidden, body, soul and divinity, Under the fragile form of bread, You are my life from Whom springs an abundance of graces; And, for me, You surpass the delights of Heaven.
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.
Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Christ greatly delights in
his people and they greatly
delight in him
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.
There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.
The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit.
There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.
real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.
Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.
He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile
It delights me to find something that kids are doing that surprises me that seems new. That's the best feeling you can have.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
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.
God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.
To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]
Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn't miserable, and it wasn't poverty stricken. It felt very safe, full of delights.
There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.
Believing in fate has probably always arisen in part because of the delights and terrors of storytelling. We have to realize--to learn--that in life we are not the readers but the authors of our own narratives.
Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume
Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.'
It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.
The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.
God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.
Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.
It's the anarchy of poverty
delights me, the old
yellow wooden house indented
among the new brick tenements
Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.
I know plenty of people who live in the country who have never seen a badger. They are definitely there, but these nocturnal delights remain elusive, and thus are still a thrill.
Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.
Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, it is a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights.
Satan delights in homosexual perversion because it not only exists outside of marriage, but it also defiles God' very image reflected as male and female.
I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.
