Pastoral Resources

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.