Quotes About Pleasant

Jesus did not come to add to our comforts. He did not come to help those who were already helping themselves or to fill life with more pleasant experiences. He came on a deliverance mission, to save sinners, and to do so He had to destroy the works of the Devil (Matt. 1:21; 1 John 3:8b).

So beautiful but so bountiful.So delicate but so fresh.So magical but so simple.So much to say but yet so silent.So loving and so pleasant.Oh, flowers of charming love, You are life's joy and present.

We desire the wrong things, and we desire right things in the wrong way. And both are deadly—like eating pleasant poison.

There has been a wonderful alteration in my mind, in respect to the doctrine of God's sovereignty.… The doctrine has very often appeared exceeding pleasant, bright and sweet. Absolute sovereignty is what I love to ascribe to God. JONATHAN EDWARDS

Knock, knock! Who's there? Ya. Ya who? I'm excited to see you too!

For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty, And all my ways are dewy wet With pleasant duty.

If your dinner is light, your dreams will be pleasant. So

It was as pleasant as a dream of some idyllic past that had never truly been, but was nice to think of all the same.

It was a nice voice, smooth and deep as double chocolate ice cream.

There is, as yet, no Act of Parliament compelling a bona fide traveler to read. If you wish him to read, you must make reading pleasant. You must give him short views, and clear sentences.

the scent in the barn unexpectedly pleasant, what with those little bursts of chrysanthemum extract and rosemary oil to keep the flies at bay.

Later that evening, as we sat in the garden having drinks, I caught Harry looking at me with a kind of doggy devotion in his eyes. I leaned back in my chair, well satisfied, both with my drink in such pleasant surroundings and with his devotion. It seemed like a balm to heal the little wound inflicted by Piers's unkindness.

If I'm going to do this, I want to do it well. And I want people to acknowledge that. "It's all just a distraction," says the voice one night. It catches me off guard. I'd almost forgotten the voice. Is it speaking the truth? Is this all just a distraction? A pleasant diversion before the gruesome finale, what they call in opera the "Grand Guignol"? Just a distraction. But a good one.

I have been recognized in public but not that often, which is nice.

We had friendly and pleasant relationships with all that worked in our films - many happy memories.

I'd like to be remembered for being a fairly pleasant person and for having gotten along for the most part with a lot of the people I've worked with. And for having a wonderful life and for having enjoyed practically every minute of it... I think I'm one of the luckiest people in the world.

Dinner was surprisingly pleasant. Ratcliffe's friends did not know what to make of his sponsorship of me, but he said something about archaeology and museums, and they fell over themselves in their anxiety not to hear anything more. When none of them were watching, Ratcliffe winked at me.

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of these new folks nowadays, that seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it could certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.

He was bewildered at how quickly he had escaped his old life and fallen into this new one with strangely pleasant crazy people.

I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it would certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls." "Don't

I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it would certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.