earthly pleasures
Mortal sensory enjoyments
Earthly pleasures are the physical and material enjoyments of human life—food, drink, sex, comfort, wealth—as distinguished from spiritual or heavenly rewards.
The phrase carries a faint note of disapproval or renunciation, often appearing in religious contexts that counsel moderation or abstinence: He forsook earthly pleasures to pursue a life of contemplation.
The implication is that such pleasures, however appealing, are temporary and perhaps trivial compared to higher pursuits.
- indulgenceYielding to desire
- sensualOf bodily pleasure
- hedonismPursuit of gratification
- carnalRelating to physical urges
- carnal desiresPhysical, especially sexual, urges
worldly · worldly goods · temptation · forbidden fruit · flesh · pleasures of the flesh · desire · luxury · creature comforts · decadence · sin · mortal · vice · appetite · gratification · wine · feasting · fine dining
- worldly attachmentsworldliness, materialism, attachments, possessions, wealth
- FaustianMephistopheles, Faust, Goethe, devil pact, Dr. Faustus
earthly pleasuresheavenly rewards
Blessings earned in eternity
divine grace · spiritual fulfillment · eternal bliss · inner peace · spiritual enlightenment
earthly pleasuresheavenly rewards
Blessings earned in eternity
eternal life · salvation · paradise · treasures in heaven · nirvana
earthly pleasuresasceticism
Severe self-denial practice
self-denial · abstinence · renunciation · austerity · monastic life
earth, earthy, earthen, earthward, earthbound, earthling, unearthly, pleasure, pleasurable