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“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

“Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.”

Doe Soul Religion Pleasure Hell Selfish Indulge

Book:How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

Source: How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

“If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.”

Ifs May Important Action Pain Religion Pleasure Cases Morality Sick Oneself Pursuit Torture Behaviour Utility Sympathetic Pain And Pleasure

Book:Choice, Welfare and Measurement

Source: Choice, Welfare and Measurement

“Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.”

Enough Religion Pleasure Wide Circles Contracts

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.”

Giving Mind Religion Turns Pleasure Virtue Highest Cheerful True Religion

Author:Joseph Addison

“Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.”

Doe Religion Pleasure Pursued Censure

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures.”

Pain Religion Pleasure Capable

Book:Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld