The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
When we obey God, we're not doing it for God... we're doing it for ourself. Because God takes pleasure when we're happy.
Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.
I have always said every good thing is divinely sent from heaven.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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