Worldly Pleasures Quotes:

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

source: Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.51

topic: Men, Yield, Giving, Worldly Pleasures, Careless

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Christian, Satisfaction, Pleasure, Worldly Desires, Worldly Pleasures

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.

- Akkineni Nagarjuna

topic: Buddhist, Desire, Pleasure, Worldly Desires, Worldly Pleasures

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

- David Brainerd

topic: Greatness, Sensual, Riches, Worldly Pleasures, Gratification

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Delight, World, Want, Worldly Pleasures, Eat Pray Love Book

The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.

- David Platt

topic: Dream, Believe, Home, Worldly Desires, Worldly Pleasures

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.

- John Tillotson

source: John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.270

topic: Heart, Expectations, Desire, Forethought, Worldly Pleasures

Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.

- Umar

topic: Heart, Comfort, Body, Worldly Pleasures

It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it.

- Hermann Hesse

source: "Siddhartha".

topic: Children, Heart, Eye, Worldly Pleasures

I want to have a lasting experience of God.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Want, Lasting, Worldly Pleasures

As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses and ancient subjects he chose represented virtues which were meant to inspire people. Then he went through a dark phase when he was listening to the sermons of Savonarola, who preached against the worldly pleasures of the Renaissance. But Botticelli's works live on, inspiring people to this day. Five hundred years after his death, he still has thousands of fans!

- Mary Pope Osborne

source: Source: www.yabookshelf.com

topic: Dark, Men, Artist, Worldly Pleasures, Botticelli

No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.

- Sathya Sai Baba

source: FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Sep 07, 2016

topic: Giving Up, Pain, Grief, Beaks, Twists And Turns

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

- John Tillotson

topic: Heart, Pleasure, Sweetness, Forethought, Worldly Pleasures