God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
Criss JamiTag: happiness blessings peace god selflessness delight joy selfishness worth obedience righteousness holiness favor worthiness considerate righteous worthy inconsiderate
Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.
Criss JamiTag: fear freedom peace god spiritual faith delight free salvation responsibility development obedience opposites greater gods-will spiritual-development remission responsible removal
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
W. Somerset MaughamTag: delight foolish impermanence
The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.
Yōko OgawaTag: delight struggle math answer guesses
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Isaac AsimovHazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.
Rick RiordanTag: life delight scream hazel-levesque
Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!
Fyodor DostoevskyAll sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
Doris LessingTag: life sanity delight feeling gratitude
But look behind you, Mary.' She nodded towards the dais. 'One of the musicians seems to be trying to attract your attention.'
It was Peter. He was standing on the dais smiling across at me. My delight at seeing him was such that I could not disguise it - did not try to disguise it.
Tag: happiness love youth delight jane-austen expectation pride-and-prejudice peter-bushell
In literature mere egotism is delightful.
Oscar WildeTag: delight
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