Home / Topics / Pleasure Quotes

Pleasure Quotes

Browse 7286 quotes about Pleasure.

Pleasure Quotes

“No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue. For Samuel mourned over Saul when he sinned, but he was not able to obtain God's mercy, for his grief was not supported by the necessary change of life on the part of the sinner. Hence God put an end to the pointless grief of His servant, saying to him, 'How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?' (I Sam. 16:1).”

Ifs Men Long Ends Able Christian Asks Prayer Sin Pleasure Grief Virtue Seeing Benefits Mercy Israel Servant Life Changing Sinner Orthodox Rejected Mourn Pointless Necessary Change

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”

Love Inspirational Giving Heart Spiritual Religion Prayer Pleasure Thousand Metaphysics Single Relationship

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.”

Men Book Prayer Pleasure Subjects Delight Wrath Recreation Doings Ira

Author:Juvenal

“God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.”

Ends Prayer Pleasure Our Prayers

Book:Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral

Source: Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral

“God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises.”

People Waiting Prayer Answers Pleasure Promise Prove Highest Tests Delight Reliability

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.”

Looks Soul Done Prayer Pleasure Lord Practice Garden Roots Plant Setting Settings Soil Weed Majesty Beginners

Book:The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

Source: The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

“The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.”

May Prayer Pleasure Common Study Growing Gratitude Benefits Profit Communicate Portions Delightful Boundless Psalms Constrain

Book:The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms

Source: The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms