Pastoral Resources

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

I delight in what I fear.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

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.

The day I finished 'Twilight', I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon', I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in Twilight.

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.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.