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“Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden.... Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy.”

World Ends Bigs Joy Pride Gratitude Offers Creating Garden Delight Appreciation Neighbor Landscape Cheer Ownership Smallest Thankfulness Cheerfulness Joyfulness

Author:Julie Moir Messervy

“If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him for who he is so that all our gratitude for his gifts will be the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!”

Ifs Heart May Joy Gratitude Delight Grants Rooted Echoes Thankfulness Giver Idolatry

Book:A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

Source: A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

“The heart that delights in God and longs only to see His glory advance will seldom be conscious of sacrifice. God in His wisdom asks that we first love Him and then live in keeping with that core value. He does not want His people to think of what they do as sacrificial, even though from the world's point of view it may be just that. Gratitude for grace of God will always be found near the center of the Biblical Christian's most powerful motivations.”

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

Knowing Source Gratitude Bases Delight Appreciation Civilized

Book:Coming to terms

Source: Coming to terms

“We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.”

Giving Doe Done Past Turns Pleasure Grace Gratitude Promise Ethics Delight Driven Contemplating Transforming Debtors Promise Of The Future

Author:John Piper

“... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”

Life Littles Truth Life Is Attention Quality Gratitude Capacity Delight Pay Attention Proportion Quality Of Life Success Or Failure

Book:The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.”

Virtue Return Praying Gratitude Mercy And Love Delight Pity Distress Thankfulness Peace And Love

Author:William Blake

“I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.”

Eye Order Imagination Gratitude Filled Delight Speed Wit Admiration Discovering Precision

Author:Anthony Hecht

“I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult: delight in taking a shower or a slow walk that has no destination, in touching something soft, in noticing the one small, black bird who sings every morning from the top of the big old pine tree ... I need to give my attention to the simple things that give me pleasure with the same fervor I have been giving it to the complex things with which I drive myself crazy.”

“Gratitude makes us feel bursting with delight, just to remember the gifts we have received. Thus we are doubly blessed when we receive something: for the gift itself and later, in recall, for the miracle of having been given it.”

Feels Remember Given Gratitude Miracle Blessed Delight Recalls Bursting

Author:M. J. Ryan

“The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.”

“We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.”

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Book:Across the Plains

Source: Across the Plains

“For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight; Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.”