delight quotes

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

I think Mustique is Duchampian – it will always provide an endless source of delight.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.