Best religion & pleasure Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“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

“Religions are maintained by people. People who can't get laid, because sex is the first great earthly pleasure. But if you can't get that, power is a pretty good second one. And that's what religion gives to people. Power. Power is sex for people who can't get or don't want or aren't any good at sex itself.”

People Ifs Want Giving Firsts Religion Sex Pleasure Getting Laid

Author:Bill Maher

“Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.”

Men Has Beens Religion Pleasure Power Vices Asceticism

Author:Bertrand Russell

“When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.”

Men Mind Feelings Religion Strong Understanding Pleasure Cases Duty Drink Members Regard Casts Neglect Disorder Appetite Indulge Civil Society Strong Drink

Book:journal

Source: journal

“We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.”

“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.”

Men Religion Next Pleasure Gone Pride Proud Elements Competition Mere Comparison Be Proud Proud Man Pride And Humility Sin Of Pride

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.”

Men Way Littles Said Life Is Religion Church Pleasure Roles Guilt Servant Backbone Organized Religion Worshippers Vilify

Book:Betrayed: A House of Night Novel

Source: Betrayed: A House of Night Novel

“History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.”

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Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

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