Quotes about Displeased

When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he was displeased and took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s.

Then Moses heard the people of family after family weeping at the entrances to their tents, and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and Moses was also displeased.

And I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.

Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.

Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.

God is displeased when he is distrusted, and when an arm of flesh is relied on, more than his power and goodness.

Is it right for God to be pleased when others hold him in contempt? Is it fitting that he be joyful when his created beings despise him? Of course not! To the contrary, it's fitting and proper for God to be displeased when his created beings hold him in contempt. But this means that it's also fitting and proper for him to be pleased when appropriate love, esteem, and honor are given to him.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

We are accordingly urged by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves. For what man is not disposed to rest in himself?