Pastoral Resources

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

God created me to delight people with my goals.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.