Quotes by Delight Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight? John Milton harmony delight society And what the people but a herd confus'd, John Milton tongue delight people 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 holiness lovely delight The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world. Jonathan Edwards inward delight humility 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 delight desire men As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree. Jonathan Edwards delight degrees jewels From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in. Jonathan Edwards delight arise hatred How delightful to find a friend in everyone. Joseph Brodsky delight friendship people God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft. Joseph Caryl delight crafts god Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex. Jonathan Swift delight anger sex To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description. Josephine Winslow Johnson volcanoes delight children The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. Joseph Joubert delight pain mind I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity. Joseph Joubert delight crush errors The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true. Joseph Addison delight silence made The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Joseph Campbell delight swim water Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Joseph Addison delight liberty freedom Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses! Joseph Joubert deprived excess delight If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue. Joseph Addison delight cry nature Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight. Hafez delight veils grieving Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Joseph Addison delight nature simple «1112131415161718192021»
