Pleasure Sin Quotes

#1. Without a complete view of sin, people can burn out in their pursuit of pleasure.

James MacDonald

#2. To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

Publilius Syrus

#3. In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

Thomas Aquinas

#4. Indeed, I have been listed under Jesus' banner only for a few years, but I have enjoyed more solid pleasure in one moment's communion with my God than I should or could have enjoyed in the ways of sin, though I had continued to have gone on in them for thousands of years.

George Whitefield

#5. What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

Alice Walker

#6. Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

R.C. Sproul

#7. It is better to seek purity than the pleasure of sin.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Sin diverts some. Pleasure diverts others. Social service and "religious" activity divert others. We are told to be occupied with Jesus Christ Himself.

Billy Graham

#9. The parents sat round watching, and in their crass faces - faces not harsh or evil, only blunted by ignorance and mean virtues - you could see a solemn approval, a solemn pleasure in the spectacle of sin rebuked.

George Orwell

#10. Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

#11. No sin has ever made any person happy. Sin simply cannot bring happiness, but it can deliver pleasure, and
when we confuse pleasure with happiness, we are wide open to the seduction of the enemy.

R.C. Sproul

#12. I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it.

Terry Wogan

#13. What a pleasure to have children in Heaven and to watch them grow and develop without the Devil and all his imps around and without sin and the Curse and all the pain, sorrow and crying! It will be pure pleasure to have children in Heaven!

David Berg

#14. I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

Edmond De Goncourt

#15. But very early they understood that playing was somewhat suspect, allowed through indulgence, a trivial pastime soon outgrown, and only about twice removed from sin. Pleasure was only once-removed.

Jetta Carleton

#16. It may seem a simple pleasure to spoil our children with a treat of sugar, but that pleasure becomes a sin when the sugar was grown by human beings held in unspeakable misery.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#17. Pleasure" is different from "happiness". It has its own definition. Pleasure may or may not come from hard work; Pleasure may or may not come from sin; However, happiness is always divine and comes from fulfillment!

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

R.C. Sproul

#19. Pleasure is the bait of sin

Plato

#20. Sinful pleasure can ruin our appetite for the things of God.

Billy Graham

#21. Bertha divined what an enormous wrong had been wrought against the world in that the longing for pleasure is placed in woman just as in man; and that with women that longing is a sin, demanding expiation, if the yearning for pleasure is not at the same time a yearning for motherhood.

Arthur Schnitzler

#22. That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.

Nina Simone

#23. It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

Oscar Wilde

#24. Isn't it wonderful that our bodies can give us so much pleasure? he said to her once, quite simply. They were happy and radiantly innocent. They were both incapable of the conception that joy is sin.

Ayn Rand

#25. Being happy in God and living righteously tastes far better for far longer than sin does. When my hunger and thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive. I say no to immorality not because I hate pleasure but because I want the enduring pleasure found in Christ.

Randy Alcorn

#26. Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.

Demonax

#27. AZRAEL:
No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater ... than central air.

Kevin Smith

#28. You could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

Ellen Glasgow

#29. I pity the atheist, for he can never fully appreciate a sinful pleasure.

James Rozoff

#30. This is how sin works: it whispers to us about the goodness of something not good. It makes distortions feel good. It tells us we'd be better off with pleasure in hell than sanctification in heaven.

Lauren F. Winner

#31. Weigh the reward of the mitzva against the pleasure of the sin, and also weigh the pleasure of the sin against the punishment it will inevitably bring. Are we getting a good deal by opting for sin? Clearly, we are not.

Yaakov Hillel

#32. The Bible says there is a certain pleasure in sin.
However, it is short-lived and fatal.

Billy Graham

#33. It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

Marcus Aurelius

#34. I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

Georges Bataille

#35. One of the hallmarks of our tendency to sin is that we feel the need to criticize, we take pleasure in gossiping, and we feel qualified to make judgments, often with very little information.

Adam Hamilton

#36. He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin.

Emile Zola

#37. What perversity of mind made suffering a virtue and pleasure a sin?

Marty Rubin

#38. [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.

Billy Graham

#39. Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.

Francois Fenelon

#40. Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.

Rick Warren

#41. Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.

Peter Kreeft

#42. But my sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in [God] but in myself and his other creatures

Augustine Of Hippo

#43. Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

George Gordon Byron

#44. The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.

Thomas Watson

#45. All the pleasure of sin cannot be compared to the satisfaction with sweetness of life in the spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#46. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation, is to yield to it.

Oscar Wilde

#47. Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.

Salvador De Madariaga

#48. People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

Bernard De Mandeville