Delight Quotes - Page 27

• We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.

  John Piper

  Christmas, Meaningful, Needs

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• Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
  In learned doctor's spite;
  Thy clouds all other clouds dispel
  And lap me in delight.

  Charles Sprague Sargent

  Clouds, Doctors, Smoking

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• Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

  Francis Bacon

  Dream, Men, Vanity

  Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria

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• Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Men, Curiosity

  Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What sweet delight a quiet life affords.

  William Drummond

  Marriage, Sweet, Quiet

  William Drummond, P. C., Peter Cunningham (1852). “Poems by ... W. D. [Edited, with a life by P. C., i.e. Peter Cunningham.]”, p.199

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• One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of the subject, its symbolism and formality, its baffling terminology, its apparent delight in lengthy calculations: these tend to obscure its real nature. A musician would be horrified if his art were to be summed up as "a lot of tadpoles drawn on a row of lines"; but that"s all that the untrained eye can see in a page of sheet music... In the same way, the symbolism of mathematics is merely its coded form, not its substance.

  Ian Stewart

  Art, Real, Eye

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• And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may also be the only belief that can save us as a species. A species that will continue to find comfort and delight in the companionship of animals, the miracle of birds, the colours of the corals and the majesty of the forests. We are in it together, on this blue spinning marble in the cold and silent void. And we must act on that belief, if we are going to be able to continue to live a good life here, in this beautiful and fragile country, on this lovely planet, our only home.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Beautiful, Country, Good Life

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• We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

  James Thurber

  Laughter, War, Home

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Love, Children, Heart

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Heber's Life of Bp. Taylor, and indexes to the ten volumes”, p.63

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• Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.

  John Piper

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Motto

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.39, Baker Academic

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• Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.

  Robert Walser

  Today, Facts, Life Is

  Robert Walser (2013). “The Walk”, p.135, Profile Books

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• Do you want to be safe from the influence, ways, and lusts of the world and the flesh (I John 2:16)? From the sins which so easily entangles us (Hebrews 12:1)? Then delight in yourself in the Lord, in His provision, in His Word. Faithfully feed on the things that possess true substance and real meaning. When you remember that "all Scripture is given by inspiration by God and is profitable" (2 Timothy 3:16) and partake of such divine substance, then you are fed, you are led and you are safe!

  Elizabeth George

  Christian, Peace, Real

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing”, p.26, Harvest House Publishers

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• When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you.

  Seth

  Outliers, Overlooked

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• It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruitbearing and His joy in possessing us, as His Bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

  Hudson Taylor

  Real, Dwelling, Joy

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• Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

  John Denham

  Book, Reading, Use

  Sir John Denham (1719). “Poems and Translations: With The Sophy, a Tragedy. Written by the Honourable Sir John Denham, ...”, p.94

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• Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.

  Isaiah

  Soul, Doe, Bread

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• Nature delights in progress; in advance.

  Edward Young

  Nature, Progress

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.315

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• If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him for who he is so that all our gratitude for his gifts will be the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!

  John Piper

  Gratitude, Heart, Echoes

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.214, Multnomah

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• O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Dear Ones, Phrases

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.

  Martha Beck

  Wonder, Moments, Shows

  "Fighting FOMO: 3 Strategies To Beat Your Fear Of Missing Out" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2013.

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• In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost.

  James Beard

  Growing Up, House, Kitchen

  James Beard (2015). “The Armchair James Beard”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• When you're weary, find relief. When you're strong, find delight.

  Martha Beck

  Strong, Relief, Weary

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• Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

  James Hogg

  Religious, People, Damnation

  James Hogg (2016). “The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Gothic Classic): Psychological Thriller”, p.153, e-artnow

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• When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life.

  Elizabeth George

  Focus, Foundation, Way

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• The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace.

  John Piper

  Men, Self, Differences

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