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Quotes About Pleasure

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.
~ Meister Eckhart
Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.
~ R. C. Sproul, Jr.
We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
~ John Piper
My God, to read without joy is stupid.
~ John Towner Williams
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
~ Iris Murdoch
Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in His creation.
~ Sho Baraka
God made all pleasures innocent.
~ Caroline Norton
I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.
~ Margaret of Valois
Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.
~ Richard Paul Evans
God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
~ Georges Bernanos
It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.
~ John Piper
God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.
~ Charles Spurgeon
If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.
~ John Piper
Some people... some people like cupcakes Exclusively, while myself, I say, There is naught nor ought there be nothing So exalted on the face of god's grey Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!
~ Frank Zappa
In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).
~ John Piper
God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.
~ Amelie Nothomb
When we choose to obey God and give our bodies to our husbands—even if we don't feel like it—God will reward us with pleasure.
~ Carolyn Mahaney
God is so pleased when He finds His heart beating in another.
~ Steven C. Hawthorne
God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.
~ Max Lucado
God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.
~ Sam Storms
Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn tasty!
~ Stephen Colbert
When the bread basket comes to the table and I have a bite, people are like, "Oh, you eat bread?" I say, "Oh, my God, of course I eat bread. I'm human."
~ Eva Mendes