Showing posts with label Pleasure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pleasure. Show all posts

John Flavel on the Pleasure Found in Observing God’s Providences

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, February 20, 2015 at 5:30 AM

“A great part of the pleasure and delight of the Christian life is made out of the observations of Providence.  "The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that "have pleasure therein" (Ps. III. 2).  That is, the study of providence is so sweet and pleasant that it invites and allures the soul to search and dive into it.  How pleasant is it to a well-tempered soul to behold and observe,” 
John Flavel
(The Mystery of Providence, PG 147)


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Richard Sibbes on Pleasure

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, December 20, 2013 at 6:30 AM

"When we come to be religious, we lose not our pleasure, but translate it.  Before we fed on common notions, but now we live on holy truths."
Richard Sibbes


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John Taylor on the Pleasures of Agriculture

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at 7:45 AM

"The capacity of agriculture for affording luxuries to the body, is not less conspicuous than its capacity for affording luxuries to the mind;  it being a science singularly possessing the double qualities of feeding with unbounded liberality, both the moral appetites of the one and the physical wants of the other.  It can even feed a morbid love of money, whilst it is habituating us to the practice of virtue; and whilst it provides for the wants of the philosopher, it affords him ample room for the most curious yet useful researches.  In short, by the exercise it gives both to the body and to the mind, it secures health and vigor to both; and by combining a thorough knowledge of the real affairs of life, with a necessity for investigating the arcana of nature, and the strongest invitations to the practice of morality, it becomes the best architect of a complete man."
John Taylor
(Arator: Essay 59)


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John Gerstner on the Problem of Pleasure

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, September 6, 2013 at 6:30 AM

"Troubled by the non-problem of pain, most people do not feel the real problem. The real difficulty is the problem of pleasure. While in a sinful world, pain is to be expected, and pleasure is not to be expected. We should be constantly amazed at the presence of pleasure in a world such as ours.

It is easy to understand why this confusion has come about. Pain is a painful subject. Pleasure is a pleasurable subject. People do not like pain. They do like pleasure. And people associate problems with what they do not like. Because they do not like pain, they call it a problem.

The fact is that pain is no problem, whereas pleasure is an excruciating problem; and if one ever begins to think about that it can become intolerable. How could there be pleasure in a sinful world? People do not like thinking about pleasure in such a light because then they must admit their own sinfulness."
John Gerstner


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John Owen on True Pleasures

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 7:20 AM

“The truth is, you have never yet known real pleasure and will not until you come to Christ. For only in Christ are true pleasures to be found.  A few moments with Christ are to be preferred to an eternity with the cursed pleasures of this world (Proverbs 3:13-18, Psalm 16:11)."

John Owen


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Thomas Watson on Pleasure and Wrath

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 8:21 AM

"What fools are they who, for a drop of pleasure, drink a sea of wrath."

Thomas Watson

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