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God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give. — C.S. Lewis

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22 — Deborah Smith

If we marvel at God's law, our core essence delights in keeping it. — Glenda Mathes

Me He now delights to spare. — Charles Wesley

What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them. — Kate DiCamillo

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. — Pam Brown

Our life is sweet, short, and bright. We have enough moments to enjoy the delights of life. — Debasish Mridha

Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights. — Jane Kenyon

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers. — Walt Whitman

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise. — Marcus Aurelius

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old. — Confucius

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction. — William Hazlitt

Food delights us, food unites us, food embodies the soil, the sea and the weather, the farmer's sweat and the fisherman's toil. — Don George

God delights to disappoint man's fears. — Lettie Cowman

Until you have courted the bluebills in the snow, you have not tasted of the purer delights of waterfowling — Gordon MacQuarrie

Oh deep winter snow, pale executioner, thou who delights in a slow, torturous death. — T.R. Neff

The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit. — J.C. Ryle

What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers. — Bob Goff

Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely. — Reuben Fine

Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning. — Horace

It's the anarchy of poverty
delights me, the old
yellow wooden house indented
among the new brick tenements — William Carlos Williams

The more dead we are to the delights of sense the better prepared we are for the pleasures of heaven. — Matthew Henry

I set my genius to portray the pleasures of cruelty! These are no fickle, artificial delights, they began with man and with him they will die. — Comte De Lautreamont

Mortal beauty stings while it delights. — Christian Nestell Bovee

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. — George Sand

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul. — Minna Antrim

Not only does God order my steps, but He delights in each wobbly step I take along His path. — Jennifer Hallmark

...the Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon. — James Fenimore Cooper

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times. — William Shakespeare

Christ greatly delights in
his people and they greatly
delight in him — John Owen

The artist enriches the soul of humanity.
The artist delights people with
a thousand different shades of feeling. — Auguste Rodin

God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft. — Joseph Caryl

For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights. — Darren Shan

The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.' — Simon Doonan

Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together. — Sergei Lukyanenko

Lush, evocative, inventive ... Livia Dare delights. Fans of Dara Joy will love [ In the Flesh ]! — Shayla Black

Behind every humorist who delights in knifing hypocrites is a major self-critic. — Wendy Aron

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire. — John Of The Cross

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age. — Isaac D'Israeli

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men. — Napoleon Bonaparte

God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him. — David Platt

was the only halo I ever wanted again, a circle of wicked wants and devilish delights. — Sierra Simone

I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights. — Robin Wright

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. — Richard Bach

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord — Samuel Rutherford

Admiration is one of the chief delights of living. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. — Blaise Pascal

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses. — George Bernard Shaw

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar

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

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

Always remember that the ocean delights in feeling your feet in her eternal bath ... — Robert Wyland

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death? — Novalis

Love overcomes, love delights, those who love the Sacred Heart rejoice. — Bernadette Soubirous

God delights to see His people rejoice in what He has provided. — Max Anders

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise. — John Piper

In this way Hassan lived the happiest of lives until he was overtaken by death, breaker of ties and destroyer of delights. — Ted Chiang

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us. — Agnes Repplier

Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year. — Horace

Violent delights tend to have violent ends. — Richard Ramirez

All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries. — Abraham Cowley

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet. — John Keats

When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy. — Ferdinand Hodler

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods. — Georg Brandes

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning. — Anna Brownell Jameson

A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions. (Proverbs 18:2) — Jan Silvious

What matters is not your outward appearance ... but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in. — Saint Peter

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. — Lactantius

Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven. — Neal A. Maxwell

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses. — Alphonsus Liguori

Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights. — Barbara Rosenblat

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will. — William Carlos Williams

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful. — Virginia Woolf

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits. — John Calvin

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint. — Winston Churchill

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights. — Pema Chodron

These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume — William Shakespeare

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The man of humanity delights in mountains — Confucius

The mind delights in making connections. — Nicholas Boothman

As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul. — Thomas Watson

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire. — Jacques Amyot

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte M. Mason

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. — Alexis De Tocqueville

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

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next — Gautama Buddha

Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights. — Debasish Mridha

The Lord delights in every little step you take. — Saint Francis De Sales

The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy: my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him — Charles Hodge

Real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild. — Lady Caroline Lamb

Love those thoughts,
those thoughts of love,
those delights for heart,
tickler of life, twinkles in eyes. — Debasish Mridha

God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development. — Max Lucado

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations — Hippocrates

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. — William Blake

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days! — Alphonse De Lamartine