Passing Pleasures Quotes

#1. The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.

Sam Storms

#2. Like the saints of old, we no longer chase after the passing pleasures of this world.34 Instead, our eyes are fixed on heaven, our true home, the place where Christ is.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#3. Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs.

Michael Josephson

#4. Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have.

Marty Rubin

#5. To paraphrase Titus 3:3, we live as slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in chaos and envy, hassled by others and hassling one another. We are all very busy, but not with what matters

Kevin DeYoung

#6. She had given him all she had - but what was it compared to the other gifts life held for him? She understood now the case of girls like herself to whom this kind of thing happened. They gave all they had, but their all was not enough; it could not buy more than a few moments ...

Edith Wharton

#7. Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

Ban Ki-moon

#8. In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.

Stephen Covey

#9. Dudes in suits and politicians didn't make sense to my 18-year-old brain. All I wanted to do was be awesome.

Ronen Kauffman

#10. Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all the undone things, all the misjudged things ... Today, there are new pleasures, new challenges, new magic.

Ruth Carter Stapleton

#11. Oh God T.J., I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking Nothing like going on about having kids in front of someone whose fertility had been exchanged for survival.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#12. No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

Anthony Hopkins