Knowing god Quote by David Jeremiah

“The joy that is of God is not opposed to earthly pleasures. Rather it infuses them with a foundation of meaning.”

— William Sloane Coffin

“God cannot and will not give us a sense of lasting pleasure apart from him, because it violates his purpose and our design. Psalm…

— Kyle Idleman

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in…

— Jack Gilbert

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

“I think thus of Satan's pride: it is difficult for us on earth to comprehend it, and therefore, how easy it is to fall…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not,…

— Theodor Adorno

“Where did our sense of beauty and pleasure come from? That seems to me a huge question—the philosophical equivalent, for atheists, to the problem…

— Philip Yancey

“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Ultimate pleasure is not Found in the short-lived thrills our world offers,but rather in the long-term joy from a deepening intimacy with our God..

— Mariane Corbito

“Pleasure, after all, is a safer guide than either right or duty. For hard as it is to know what gives us pleasure, right…

— Samuel Butler

“Brief worldly pleasure is followed by pain and disgust. If only people would believe it rather than experience it.”

— Johann Martin Boltzius

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be…

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr