Quotes about Pleasure
We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
- John Calvin
If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.
- Sam Storms
Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.
- AW Tozer
God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.
- John Piper
Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.
- Martin Luther
If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.
- Brother Lawrence
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.
- AW Tozer
The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.
- Thomas Watson
God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.
- RC Sproul Jr.
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
- Martin Luther
We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
- John Piper
It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.
- John Piper