Philip Yancey Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.

  Philip Yancey

  Despair, Devotion, Ecclesiastes

  Philip Yancey (2002). “The Bible Jesus Read: An Eight-session Exploration of the Old Testament Participant's Guide”, p.97, Harper Collins

• Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

  Philip Yancey

  Pleasure, Danger, Graves

  Philip Yancey (2002). “The Bible Jesus Read: An Eight-session Exploration of the Old Testament Participant's Guide”, p.97, Harper Collins

• The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

  Philip Yancey

  Promise, Realization, Haunting

  Philip Yancey (2001). “The Bible Jesus Read”, p.159, Zondervan

• The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.

  Philip Yancey

  Meaningful, Community, Independence

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