Quotes about Pleasing
Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
- Francis Chan
The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious
- Martin Luther
We need to step into certain uncertainty. Without faith it is impossible to please God.
- Craig Groeschel
Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.
- Kevin DeYoung
God always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but to please Him.
- Brother Lawrence
God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.
- St. Augustine
A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
- Vance Havner
The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.
- NT Wright
What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?
- RC Sproul
He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.
- St. Augustine
Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
- Francis Chan