Quotes about Pleasing
Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.
— David Brainerd
This day, I saw clearly that I should never be happy, yea, that God Himself could not make me happy, unless I could be in a capacity to 'please and glorify Him forever.' Take away this and admit me into all the fine heavens that can be conceived of by men or angels, and I should still be miserable forever.
— David Brainerd
You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.
— John Hagee
May God enable me to have a single eye and a simple heart, desiring to please God, to do good to my fellow creatures, and testify my gratitude to my adorable Redeemer.
— William Wilberforce
So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.
— Greg Laurie
If you want to please God, believe God.
— Jentezen Franklin
If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?
— Leonard Ravenhill
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
— John Ortberg
Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way.
— Francis Chan
You know one of the most encouraging things about faith? It pleases God.
— Charles Swindoll
We need to make sure our activities and our attitudes line up with what pleases God first and foremost. Wherever we focus our attention the most will become the driving force in our lives.
— Lysa TerKeurst
We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
— Catherine of Siena