Amusement Quote by Ellen G. White

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

— John Ortberg

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it must never…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

— Nicolas Chamfort

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

— William Sloane Coffin

“I am now going to make an admission. I confess, I agree, that all these good people who protested, who laughed, who did not…

— Paul Valery

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

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the…

— John Tillotson

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

— John Ortberg

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you…

— Anonymous

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself…

— Lord Chesterfield

“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,…

— Sigmund Freud