Supreme Delight Quotes

#1. 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.

Hosea Ballou

#2. It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight.

James Gordon Lindsay

#3. And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of out way to God, in supreme delight in Him who is the gladness of our joy, the secret of tranquillity will be ours.

Alexander MacLaren

#4. The secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems to the solution of which the mystic aspires. Supreme power, supreme wisdom, supreme delight lie in the far-off solution of this mystery.

Douglas Fawcett

#5. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. Winter, spring, and summer, passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossoms or the expanding leaves - sights which before always yielded me supreme delight, so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation.

Gris Grimly

#7. Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

Alain Ducasse

#8. The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

Charles Baudelaire

#9. You know the actor's nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer's nightmare is giving a reading and somebody standing up and saying, 'That's not your story.'

Lynn Coady

#10. I've seen you handle your stick, Caleb. You're much better at it than I am

C.J. Roberts

#11. you expect to be able to understand the exact workings of the Almighty?

Brandon Sanderson

#12. He was drifting, I could hear it in his voice. He always fell asleep as easily as some great lazing cat, he only had to close his eyes and moments later he'd be gone, while my own mind kept on whirring round with scattered thoughts and images.

Susanna Kearsley

#13. My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.

Mary McCarthy

#14. Who says my heart is involved? Maybe I just want to have fun. Maybe my heart couldn't care less.

Mila Rossi