It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“A woman isn't a whore for wanting pleasure. If it were unnatural, we would not be born with such drives.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing. — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do.… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The pleasure of grace and beauty is one of life's greatest rewards and some people can provide that better than others. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
I will play to create history and enjoy myself and give pleasure to the fans. — Olivier Giroud Copy Share Image
Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let… — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error. I believe it… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
George Jones has been a major part of my personal and professional life for a long time. I have been inspired by… — Sammy Kershaw Copy Share Image
For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Welcome home, Rachel mariana Morgan, he said, his goat-slitted eyes holding a new, dangerous light. It's a pleasure to finally meet you. — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“When you fall for your appetite too early, you may not be able to endure to the end.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In England, I suppose I have been known to once or twice tune into 'Big Brother', which is a pretty terrible guilty… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
“He didn't just want her now. He needed her. He needed to feel his rhythm in her body, to see if his… — Lexxie Couper Copy Share Image
Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I play for the audience's pleasure. What I expect from them is not important; it's what they expect from me. — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar Copy Share Image
“But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong. — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality. — Ian Gardner Copy Share Image
The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
