Pleasure Quotes
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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
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You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings toward Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just as far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it; you love Him. It is not natural to us sinful, ungrateful beings to prefer His pleasure to our own or to follow His way instead of our own way, and nothing, nothing but love of Him can or does make us obedient to Him.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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The greatest pleasure of life is love.
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Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
