Quotes About Enjoyment

I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

The great old catechism asks, "What is the chief end of man?" and answers, "Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever." 2 Enjoying God is the way to glorify God, because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

Therefore everything that you enjoy in Christ - as a Christian, as a person who trusts Christ - is owing to the death of Christ.

Christmas means: the infinitely self-sufficient God has come not to be assisted but to be enjoyed.

and empowering them to enjoy making much of him. As Edwards says, "God is their good." Therefore if God would do us good, he must direct us to his worth, not ours. The

I paraphrased Edwards with the words, "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." Here my paraphrase is: "The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying him forever." This is the essence of what I call "Christian hedonism.

God is not worshiped where He is not treasured and enjoyed. Praise is not an alternative to joy, but the expression of joy. Not to enjoy God is to dishonor Him. To say to Him that something else satisfies you more is the opposite of worship. It is sacrilege.

The universe exists primarily to display the wealth of the glory of the mercy of God for the enjoyment of his redeemed people from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

If we are attracted by the desirability of something God promises, and hope to enjoy it without enjoying God in it and by it, then we are turning God's promise into a summons to idolatry.

A métrica, o ritmo e o andamento todos têm o seu papel no nosso prazer. Ainda que os nossos batimentos cardíacos não estejam ligados ao andamento, certamente que consideramos andamentos mais lentos como sendo mais relaxantes e mais empolgantes os que são mais rápidos. Esta tensão estará provavelmente ligada ao facto de não gostarmos da incerteza e, especialmente, ao nosso receio de não conseguirmos lidar com uma situação.

A great place to work is one in which you trust the people you work for, have pride in what you do, and enjoy the people you work with. ~ Robert Levering, Co-Founder, Great Place to Work

Lets have a gay time!

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

If it be contrary to man's nature that he should live like a mere pig, or a tiger, or any form of brute beast, it is equally contrary to his nature not to like a good dinner, and to shrink from a glass of good wine.

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.

In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence

Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.

Whatever we may think or affect to think of the present age, we cannot get out of it; we must suffer with its sufferings, and enjoy with its enjoyments; we must share in its lot, and, to be either useful or at ease, we must even partake its character.

When people who are tolerably fortunate in their outward lot do not find in life sufficient enjoyment to make it valuable to them, the cause generally is, caring for nobody but themselves

A state of exalted pleasure lasts only moments or in some cases, and with some intermissions, hours or days, and is the occasional brilliant flash of enjoyment, not its permanent and steady flame.

'Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetiteMakes eating a delight.

How are you, Hildy? Having a good time? Getting laid?" "Just did, thank you.

The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.