Quotes about Pleasure
The pleasure of pride is like the pleasure of scratching. If there is an itch one does want to scratch; but it is much nicer to have neither the itch nor the scratch. As long as we have the itch of self-regard we shall want the pleasure of self-approval; but the happiest moments are those when we forget our precious selves and have neither but have everything else (God, our fellow humans, animals, the garden and the sky) instead.
— John Piper
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is. C. S. LEWIS Surprised by Joy1
— John Piper
When Christ calls us to a new act of obedience that will cost us some temporal pleasure, we call to mind the surpassing value of following Him, and by faith in His proven worth, we forsake the worldly pleasure. The result? More joy! More faith! Deeper than before. And so we go on from joy to joy and faith to faith.
— John Piper
The strength of our desire is not the measure of the strength of the final pleasure.
— John Piper
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.5
— John Piper
Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.
— John Piper
It is not a bad thing to desire our own good. In fact, the great problem of human beings is that they are far too easily pleased. They don't seek pleasure with nearly the resolve and passion that they should. And so they settle for mud pies of appetite instead of infinite delight.
— John Piper
The lovers of God's Word praise the preciousness of the Bible and the pleasures it brings. They
— John Piper
Most of our life is a gorging of one artificially inflamed appetite after another.
— John Piper
Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. That is what the next chapter is about.
— John Piper
God is our supreme pleasure. We prefer above all else to know him and see him and be with him and be like him.
— John Piper
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
— John Piper