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The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.
False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.
Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.
I am a beautiful flower that is blossoming more and more each day. I delight in my world, and my world delights in me.
I met Amy Winehouse a few times and she was always funny, charming and self-deprecating - just a delight to be around.
All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!
Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.
Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
I can't imagine painting my face in a team colour and roaring with delight as a multi-millionaire kicks a ball at a net.
Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.
Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.
Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.
You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane
A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.
It is an absolute delight to work with Ranveer. He is a thorough professional and at the same time, he is such a cool guy.
I get frustrated with certain aspects of the game. But there's things that delight me, it's just the uncertainty of it all.
An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.
Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.
It delights me to find something that kids are doing that surprises me that seems new. That's the best feeling you can have.
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
The curious thing is that I embraced homosexuality with as much joy and delight as I've embraced everything else in my life.
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.
A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie; it's an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.
Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.
I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does.
Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from it.
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.