Inspirational Quotes on Pleasure

“There is legitimate pleasure, which is not wrong, but we are not to become so preoccupied with its activities that it takes the place of God.”

“Today our world is mad in its obsession with pleasure, sex, and money. Its ear is too dull to hear the truth. Most men’s eyes are blind. They do not want to see. They do not want to hear. They hurry to their doom.”

“The more worldly pleasure we enjoy, the less satisfied and contented we are with life.”

“[Mankind has] allowed worldly desires and pleasures to fill the heart and mind. Whatever the sin, we need to repent and turn to Jesus Christ in faith for forgiveness and new life.”

“We are like a restless sea, finding a little peace here and a little pleasure there, but nothing permanent and satisfying. So the search continues!”

“Many of us have no appetite for spiritual things because we are absorbed in the sinful pleasures of this world. We have been eating too many of the devil’s delicacies.”

“How do we get our values so mixed up? We look for shortcuts to happiness. Our lust for immediate pleasure prompts us to think of evil as good.”

“We have at our fingertips every pleasure that man is capable of enjoying, and man has abused every gift God ever gave him.”

“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”

“Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.”

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)”

“if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.”

“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.”

“The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.”

“Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.”

“The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.”

“Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for spiritual joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and spiritual joy you have not yet begun to live.”

“You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.”

“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

“Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.”