“Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.”

—  Anthony Trollope

Speech at the opening of an art exhibition at Bolton Mechanics' Institution (7 December 1868)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared fo…" by Anthony Trollope?
Anthony Trollope photo
Anthony Trollope 128
English novelist (1815-1882) 1815–1882

Related quotes

Samuel Romilly photo

“Who will not be proud to concur with my honored friend in promoting the greatest act of national benefit, and securing to the Africans the greatest blessing which God has ever put in the power of man to confer on his fellow creatures?”

Samuel Romilly (1757–1818) British politician

Quoted in Memoir of William Wilberforce, Thomas Price (Boston: Light & Stearns, 1836), pages 59–60. https://ia902609.us.archive.org/5/items/memoirwilliamwi00pricgoog/memoirwilliamwi00pricgoog.pdf
Slave Trade Bill speech (1807)

“Love your fellow creature, though vicious. Hate vice in the friend you love the most.”

James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician

The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)

Ray Comfort photo

“No enjoyment on this sad old earth has come even close to the unending pleasures that God has prepared 'for those that love Him.”

Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist

This is the teaching of the Bible. And you are going to miss out, simply because you refuse to change your mind, repent, and trust the Saviour.
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)

“" Love is the most greatest thing on earth that everlast, love from God to his word, from his words, to a man, from a man to his world. " -Abah Sule, P. E LOVE IS THE ONLY FORCE CAPABLE OF TRANSFORMING AN ENEMY INTO A FRIEND."”

Engr.Abah Sule
Thomas Aquinas photo

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Francis Bacon photo

“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.”

Francis Bacon book Essays

Of Gardens
Essays (1625)

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben photo

“The greatest treasure that God can give his creatures is and ever will be—genuine existence.”

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben (1806–1849) Austrian psychiatrist, poet and philosopher

If these words of Herder be true, cultivation is the key to the most precious of treasures; for as Nature has insured the permanence of existence by implanting in us a force of resistance and self-renovation, so may we, on our side, increase the force of these attributes by self-acquired powers of mind.
p 75 1852 translation
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)

Dante Alighieri photo

“The greatest gift which God in His bounty bestowed in creating, and the most conformed to His own goodness and that which He most prizes, was the freedom of the will, with which the creatures that have intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.”

Dante Alighieri book Paradiso

Canto V, lines 19–24 (tr. Singleton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso

Frederick William Robertson photo

“Nothing satisfies God but the voluntary sacrifice of love. The pain of Christ gave God no pleasure — only the love that was tested by pain — the love of perfect obedience.”

Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) British writer and theologian

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 401.

Ray Comfort photo

“No enjoyment on this sad old earth has come even close to the unending pleasures that God has prepared 'for those that love Him.' This is the teaching of the Bible. And you are going to miss out, simply because you refuse to change your mind, repent, and trust the Saviour.”

Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist

You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)

Related topics