Sentences with phrase «delight in»

You just seem to delight in coming here to scold them and belittle them.

I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

It means something for every craftsman that these forms celebrate new materials and textures, that there seems to be a fresh delight in sheer cleanliness of line in this cluttered world, that forthright candor of statement is both proffered and received.

That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.

is to be precritical, then in that sense I delight in being so.

Indeed, delight in God is as necessary to your well - being as looking upon truth and contemplating wisdom.

Women now delight in thinking.

And do we see Jesus as one who would delight in dangling sinners over a fire as one dangles a spider, from Edwards» phrase?

I would like to hear sermons giving shape to possibilities of human delight in the future God intends for us and setting forth the moral imperatives that are required to make the ideal real.

According to Julian, then, as beloved human beings created in the image of the Trinity, we already, right now, at this moment, have our resources for the year ahead: the capacities truly to see God who is the truth, to contemplate God who is wisdom, and to delight in God who is love.

But we have our own purity codes these days — people we cast out from our communities or surround with Bible - wielding mobs, labels we assign to those who don't fit, conditions we place on God's grace, theological and behavioral checklists we hand out before baptism or communion, sins real or imagined we delight in taking seriously because we'd like to think they are much more severe than our own.

The capacity for truth «sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and of these two comes the third, and that is a marvelous delight in God, which is love...»

I wanted Beethoven to walk into that room so that I could hug him, there and then, for the pure delight he had given me (perhaps, in that region as yet somewhat beyond our comprehension, he too was able to take delight in my response).

The three great religions of Abraham delight in killing each other.

But the meek shall inherit the land, and delight themselves in abundant prosperity (shalom).

Deserving of mention also is the couplet which by a negation tells much of a pervasive zest of life and delight in physical well - being such as is frequently ascribed to the Greek temper:

The dog's owner throws a stick or a ball into a lake, then both owner and dog experience delight in the adventures the dog has as it retrieves the item.

As one who continues to delight in the poems, I cheer the ingenuity and inspiration of the allegorical interpretation which preserved the Song of Solomon.

And as the years go by, each person in the group comes to understand the differences, to accept them, and to delight in them.

But He also created you to delight in this relationship, and ultimately this process, with another person.

And most of what has been said would have been better unsaid: the delight in speculation without the slightest basis in evidence is among the worst tendencies of....

Before there were deeps and their fountains, before the mountains were sunk into their places, before the earth and its fields existed, wisdom was present to assist in fixing the heavens and in tracing the great circle of the farthest horizon,... Wisdom was to Yahweh an intimate friend, as well as agent and overseer in all this work, finding delight in the creation of all things...

The criteriology is already there in the crisis, in the judgment about the idols: «All who make idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit; their witnesses neither see nor know, and they may be put to shame» (Isaiah 44:9).

On the other hand, openness to others and delight in their presence and activity can give color and vitality to the group's own existence.

Sure I encourage them to do stuff, to excel and do their best, but I hope I also communicate to them that I simply delight in being with them, enjoying who they are.good thoughts

In turning inward, he says, I find that I am, that I know that I am, and that I delight in that being and that knowing.

If the intellectual life is like this, if struggle is its blood and bone, then one ought to expect those who think rightly about it to delight in and deploy the imagery and metaphors of battle and war to capture its flavor.

They are not simply for the sake of drudgery and punishment; they actually bring us to delight in the Lord more than in romantic pursuits.

Her admiration for [her brothers» fiction], her interest in human behavior,... her moral intensity and love of elegance, jokes, puns, ludicrous situations, ironic remarks and even her delight in accurate language and in the touching impossibilities of popular fiction were fed by her brothers» Oxford journal.

Augustine said: I am, I know that I am, and I delight in my being and my knowing.

Henry's delight in chaos is even more explicit later, when he reflects on the fun the young people all had planning the play:

God created us to delight in these things and the people who nurture them in the world.

Remember you are not alone the Lord is with you and he never leaves us nor forsakes us.This verse is for you to hold onto Psalm 37:4 Take delight in the Lord and he will fulfill the desires of your heart.He already knows what you need and will bring the right people into your life to help and encourage you through your trials.brentnz

'' I believe the whole thing... I will venture to say there isn't one Bishop here that believes any more than I do and that takes more delight in the worship from that Prayer Book than I do.

Taking its foundation instead from the classical psychology of virtue, shame in doing what is wrong and a delight in doing what is right, it insists that hope is at the centre of the arduous task of chastity — and that chaste celibacy is a singular manifestation of hope for others.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

Still another, late to appear but seemingly as durable as the rest, is a kind of profane delight in logical clarity and «hard facts.»

11) But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace Psalms 37:29... The righteous themselves will possess the earth, And they will reside forever UPON it.

Now I can take delight in enjoying a novel, in writing a poem, and not feel so guilty when there on my desk sits the latest theological study on a particular issue.

Surely what's not at stake is the enjoyment and delight in the «light and ephemeral» joys that form so much of the substance of human relationships.

Those whacky Franciscan priests took special delight in burning entire clans in their kivas, and Onate was clearly filled with God's love when he killed 800 Acoma villagers, including men, women and children, enslaved the remaining 500, and amputated the left foot of every Acoma man over the age of twenty - five... because they wouldn't give up their winter supplies to support the missions.

For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

It is this sense for the concrete, this delight in imaginative picture - making, that has shaped the «parables,» which are so notable a feature of the gospels.

17 He also loved cursing, so it came to him; And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.

Surely what's not at stake is the enjoyment and delight in the....

Yes, when late autumn comes, even the flower can speak the wisdom of the years and say with truthfulness, «All has its time, there is «a time to be born and a time to die»; there is a time to jest lightheartedly in the spring breeze, and a time to break under the autumn storm; there is a time to burst forth into blossom, beside the running water, beloved by the stream, and a time to wither and be forgotten; a time to be sought out for one's beauty, and a time to be unnoticed in one's wretchedness; there is a time to be nursed with care, and a time to be cast out with contempt; there is a time to delight in the warmth of the morning sun and a time to perish in the night's cold.

We continue to take occasional delight in the fantasy of fairy tales and cartoons.

Psalm 1 reminds us that those who delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night, are happy, blessed and fruitful.

«Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.»

He made no secret of his disregard for religion and seemed (to the family) to delight in criticizing church - going people as hypocrites or duty - bound slaves to habit.