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• So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.

  John Piper

  Moving, Giving, Joy

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• Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

  Elizabeth George

  Dust, Answers

  Elizabeth George (2012). “A Woman's Daily Walk with God”, p.28, Harvest House Publishers

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• Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was another irony because, for so long, he had shunned the tube for a similar purpose-to prevent it from bombarding his brain with demons of banality. However, each time he turned the machine on, he began to discover a world of assorted delights, as well as gain insight into the insidious manner in which this medium was shaping the mass psyche. If nothing else, he learned there was nothing innocuous about it.

  Jim Carroll

  Long, Brain, Purpose

  Jim Carroll (2010). “The Petting Zoo: A Novel”, p.176, Penguin

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• What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?

  John Newton

  Humble, Men, Silence

  John Newton (1808). “The works of the rev. John Newton”, p.246

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• A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Lovely, Holiness, God Love

  Jonathan Edwards (2013). “The Religious Affections”, p.183, Courier Corporation

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• To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.

  John Piper

  Joy, Soul, Finals

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.87, Multnomah

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• The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference between duty and delight. Therefore, the first and most important job of a parent is to fall in love with the worship of God. You can't impart what you don't possess.

  John Piper

  Falling In Love, Jobs, Children

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• The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Humility, Inward, World

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.69

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• Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Spiritual, Blessing, Giving

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• Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered exultation is rooted in God-centered education.

  John Piper

  Passion, Thinking, Knowing

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• Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

  Virgil

  Math, Numbers, Numbers And Math

  Virgil (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virgil (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics

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• Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

  William Ellery Channing

  Giving, Infinite, Conviction

  William Ellery Channing (1888). “The Works of William E. Channing”

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• Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

  Francis Bacon

  Cutting, Old Things, Tools

  Francis Bacon (1900). “Advancement of Learning: And Novum Organum”

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• The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

  Voltaire

  Music, Animal, Class

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.238

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• Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Desire, Holiness

  Jonathan Edwards (1851). “The Works ...”, p.187

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• To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.

  John Piper

  Heart, Mean, Grace

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• We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.

  John Piper

  Heart, Free Gifts, Buying Things

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• 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.

  John Lubbock

  Taken, Sea, Firsts

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

  John Lubbock

  Nature, Thinking, Tree

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

  Kenneth Clark

  Principles, Greedy, Ruthless

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• Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Energy, Hieroglyphics

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form: A Study in Ideal Form”, p.173, Princeton University Press

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• The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and delight of society? Yet I am sensible that a man may be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be agreeable; and I take the reason of this to be, that pleasure cannot be bestowed by the simple and unmixed exertion of any one faculty or accomplishment.

  Richard Cumberland

  Wise, Witty, Art

  Richard Cumberland (1822). “The observer”, p.220

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• All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the praises of his redeemed people. God governs the world with glory precisely that he might be admired, marvelled at, exalted and praised. The climax of his happiness is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the praises of the saints.

  John Piper

  Echoes, People, Excellence

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• A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires.

  Edward Young

  God, Joy, Inspire

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.168

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• My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

  Jack London

  Ancestry, Heritage, Ancient

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.467, Delphi Classics

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