Innocent Quote by Caroline Norton Download Open image “God made all pleasures innocent.” — Caroline Norton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Innocent Made Pleasure
The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“The joy that is of God is not opposed to earthly pleasures. Rather it infuses them with a foundation of meaning.” — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child? — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
Oh, there at last, life's trials past, / We'll meet our loved ones more, / Whose feet have trod the path to God, --… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay. — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave. — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace. — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing. — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
I have clearly said we faced terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people and we have to stop them and we… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're watching my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well put together… — Frank Black Copy Share Image
I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife… — Kevin McAleer Copy Share Image
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect… — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image
