Best heart & delight Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.”

Men Looks Heart Felt Pure Delight Cunning Sincerely Converses

Author:John Calvin

“The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds. A soul filled with thoughts of sensual desire and hatred is unpurified. If we detect any trace of hatred in our hearts against any man whatsoever for committing any fault, we are utterly estranged from love for God, since love for God absolutely precludes us from hating any man.”

Ifs Knows Men Love Heart Persons Soul Helping Christian Desire Hate Passion Hatred Filled Faults Bounds Delight Every Man Sensual God Love Indescribable

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.”

“The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.”

Thinking Heart Art Moving Song Simple Blood Ready Summer Trade Delight Accidents Shade Pipe Freeze

Author:William Wordsworth

“Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.”

Heart Cities Seeing Travel Benefits Meetings Delight Hearing Manners Marvelous Freshness Travel And Tourism Marvelous Things

Author:Saadi

“Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.”

Heart Conditions My Heart Despair Delight Desperation Respectable

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.”

Ifs Firsts Heart Eye Moving Emotion My Heart Surprise Delight Outrage Surprise Me

Author:Denis Diderot

“How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.”

Ifs Heart Made Beautiful Water Thousand Fairs Lonely Sight Delight Tongue Spots Grandeur Wondrous Sparkle Mirth

Author:Elizabeth Oakes Smith

“O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.”

Men Heart May White Flower My Heart Spring Green Clean Dear Delight Lovely Lilies Bursting May Flowers

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.”

Heart Sound Brain Music Wise Sweet My Heart Capacity Delight Organized Charm Rapture Heart And Brain Sweet Music

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence.”

World Heart Enjoy Existence Surprise Rounds Delight Circles Damn Tension Dull Inward Circus Grim Round World

Author:e. e. cummings

“Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.”

Men Looks Heart Wise Delight Disgusting

Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss that hath no utterance save rich tears. She floats in fragrance down the smiling dark, Foldeth a kiss upon the lips of Life-- Curtaineth into rest the weary world-- And shuts us in with all our hid delights.”

World Humans Heart Earth Night Dark Rich Tears Kissing Summer Lips Delight Bliss Weary Human Heart Floats Fragrance Utterance Brooding Summer Nights

Author:Frank Herbert

“And what is the joy of Christ? The joy and delight which springs forever in His great heart, from feeling that He is forever doing good; from loving all, and living for all; from knowing that if not all, yet millions on millions are grateful to Him, and will be forever.”

Ifs Heart Feelings Joy Christ Millions Forever Knowing Spring Grateful Delight Doing Good Great Hearts

Book:The Good News of God: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The Good News of God: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

Looks Heart Has Beens Grief Tears Emotional Sorrow Positivity Delight Uplifting Moving On Breakup Broken Heart Grief And Loss Sympathy Death Of A Loved One Heartbroken Bereavement Weeping Condolences Sorrowful Joys And Sorrows Losing A Loved One My Sympathy Loss Of A Loved One Grief Loss Words Of Sympathy Sympathy Condolences Death Grief Grief And Death Sympathy For Loss Death Comfort Grief And Mourning Condolences And Sympathy Death Sympathy Grieving A Death Loss Loved One Inspirational Dealing With Death Grief Healing Death Condolences Help With Grief Words Of Condolence Inspirational Condolences Inspirational Sympathy Sympathy Messages Inspirational Grief Inspirational Mourning Mourning Loss Loved One Sympathy For A Friend Funeral Condolences Inspirational Bereavement Comfort Loss Famous Condolence Grieving Loss Death And Mourning Death Mourning Healing From Loss Deep Sorrow Grief And Loss Inspirational Mourning Death Grieving And Loss Tears Of Sorrow Looking For Sympathy

Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“Nature with her wealth of birds and flowers, Has in her heart a place for every weed; For her quick eyes require no microscope To note the varied wonders and delights That the Creator's humblest works possess.”

Heart Eye Nature Wealth Wonder Flower Bird Notes Simplicity Delight Creator Weed Microscopes

Author:Kobo Abe

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