Top 30 Quotes About Worldly Pleasures
#1. Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
David Brainerd
#2. If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#3. The saints have to 'drink poison' (worldly suffering) and the world has to 'drink nectar' (worldly pleasures). Because people are weak.
Dada Bhagwan
#4. Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.
Johann Arndt
#5. Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours ...
Martin Hopkins
#6. The one upon whom calamity has fallen can display courage with patience; and his circumstances, unlike the one who is drunk with worldly pleasures, permit him to solemnly prepare for a meeting with his Lord.
Aaidh Ibn Abdullah Al-Qarni
#7. We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.
John Tillotson
#8. Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.
Umar
#9. Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.
Voltaire
#10. The worldly life means a market place of sensual pleasures. Worldly life means false (temporary) happiness all the time. And moksha (liberation) means permanent happiness all the time.
Dada Bhagwan
#11. The world is made of Circles
And we think in straight Lines
Peter M. Senge
#12. Many Christians give in to various temptations through peer pressure and find themselves surrendering to worldly passions, justifying pleasures the world offers.
Billy Graham
#13. [T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand Russell
#15. Ferrari's only objective is to be at the top, in other words, to compete for the World Championship. That's our right. Winning is another matter. It wouldn't be a disgrace to come in second after a tough fight.
Michael Schumacher
#16. One enjoyed the mental pleasures through ignorance (of the Self), and that is cause of the worldly life. Only the bliss of the 'Knowledge' [of the Soul, one's True Self] is to be enjoyed.
Dada Bhagwan
#17. There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
Nagarjuna
#18. Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.
S. N. Goenka
#19. I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within. Look at me not with outward eye but with inward vision of the heart; Follow me there and see how unencumbered we become.
Rumi
#20. I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt?
Harry Truman
#21. Where is the direction of influence going to run? It's going to run - and the research confirms this again and again - it's going to run from the experienced to the inexperienced. The net outcome of sex education, styled as Rogerian encountering, is more sexual experience.
William Coulson
#22. There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60' ... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
Aaron Sorkin
#23. Brave isn't something you are. It's something you do.
Cynthia Hand
#24. [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
#25. But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.
Steve Wozniak
#26. There are no new sins - only new sinners. There are no new crimes - only new criminals, No new evils - only new evildoers. No new pleasures - only new pleasure seekers. We must distinguish between wholesome, God-ordained pleasure and sinful, worldly pleasure.
Billy Graham
#28. It's not easy making money as an actor. It's just not an easy thing to do. There's so many that want to do it and so few opportunities to do it that it's not as easy as it would seem.
Kurt Russell
#29. I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.
Mary Russell Mitford
#30. Funny how older brothers could still be annoying even after everyone was all grown-up.
Elizabeth Camden
