A Quote by Jonathan Edwards

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

Jonathan Edwards

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Jonathan Edwards
American - Priest
October 5, 1703 - March 22, 1758

Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. . . .

John Flavel

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

David Brainerd

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

Alphonsus Liguori

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Steve Kangas

One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

Simone Weil

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Charles Baudelaire

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

Charles Baudelaire

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Bernard Malamud

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

George Henry Lewes

There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.

Georg Buchner

This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.

Martha Beck

I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. [...] I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

C. S. Lewis

The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going against the grain of one's sex.