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“The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our faith, to our self-denial, to our delight in duty. Other evidence than this the Bible knows not God has not given.”

Knows Self Given Acceptance Humility Duty Evidence Delight Denial Beloved Proportion Repentance Our Love Self-denial

Book:Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

“When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.”

Women Talking Duty Regard Raises Delight Appearance Storm Captured

Author:Honore de Balzac

“It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.”

Mind Joy Easy Duty Delight Joyful

Author:Dorothy Day

“Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.”

Hard Love Is Principles Duty Labor Delight Supreme Ignorant Faithful Enlightened Hearted

Author:Hosea Ballou

“The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference between duty and delight. Therefore, the first and most important job of a parent is to fall in love with the worship of God. You can't impart what you don't possess.”

Feels Firsts Children Important Jobs Fall Parent Hours Differences Duty Worship Our Children Falling In Love Delight Block Cherish Impart Stumbling Important Jobs Stumbling Blocks

Author:John Piper

“Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.”

Giving Divine Duty Conscience Infinite Delight Conviction Creator Command Sanctions Rectitude

Book:The Works of William E. Channing

Source: The Works of William E. Channing

“We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.”

Spirit Lord Imagine Duty Delight Imagine That Our Lord

Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

“And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.”

“An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.”