Quotes About Pleasure

and agreeable to those who are not over-fastidious about trifles, and who delight in being in the open air.

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing

Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

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

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

No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace to live above every human motive, simply with God and to God.

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

All the gifts and talents we have are from God, but they are also for God...for His glory and for His pleasure. Don't waste them, make great use of them and make Him proud.

Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

Thanks be to God, the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.

Oh my God, that is the best coffee I've ever tasted.

God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.

Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

Because dying for God is a higher pleasure... than living without Him.

He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of food and drink.