Spiritual Delight Quotes

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.

What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?

To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.

Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.

If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.

The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.

When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life.

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.

To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.

Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

The soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight. What do you imagine, must that dwelling be in which a King so mighty, so wise, and so pure, containing in Himself all good, can delight to rest? Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He told us, He created us in his own image and likeness.

The longer I live, the more I have the feeling like God looks down, like when you've just bitten into a vanilla ice cream cone, you just get the feeling God's going, 'Yes! He enjoys it, and I made his taste buds and I made vanilla and he's putting it together and he's experiencing what I created him to experience.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.

The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.

HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.