A warrior so bold, and a virgin so bright, Conversed as they sat on the green. They gazed on each other with tender delight, Alonzo the Brave was the name of the knight-- The maiden's the Fair Imogene.
God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.
To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.
Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?
Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.
A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.
The teacher will perform miracles. Not just to delight and amuse people, but showing them that miraculous occurrences indicate that there is something more.
. . . God cometh sometimes unto the soul when it hath neither called, nor prayed unto, nor summoned Him. And He doth instil into the soul a fire and a love and a sweetness not customary, wherein it doth greatly delight and rejoice. . . Thus doth the soul feel that God is mingled with it and hath made companionship with it.
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.
I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.