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To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.
The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.
I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
Rap has always had a braggadocios flavour to it. That goes all the way back to 'Rapper's Delight.'
Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.
And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?
The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.
Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
We don't honor just to get a reward; we honor because it is the heart of God, and it is our delight.
[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
Taking delight in random encounters that come our way is a wonderful reminder that God is in control.
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
The reach of 'Hamilton' never surprises me. It's always a delight to meet someone who's seen the show.
I delight in the sweet and sour moments we routinely share, together applauded by muppets in leotards.
This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.
The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
Grace is always given freely by God, but grace received should always issue in a joyous delight in Him.
There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.
Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.
It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.
Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.
I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real
For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.
We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
If you want to stay in business, satisfy customers. If you want to excel in business, delight customers.
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe.
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.
The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.
Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.
The delight you feel in that split second you score your first hundred is so intense it can't be repeated.
Part of the delight of my garden is that you just get lost in it before you've even started to do anything.