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Quotes About Pleasing

You must concentrate on pleasing God alone, and if He is pleased, you must be pleased.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
We aim to please... You aim too, please.
~ Henny Youngman
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 R. Swindoll
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.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
~ Francis Chan
I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?
~ Benjamin Carson
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.
~ Saint Augustine
The greatest thing that will please God is that you maintain an attitude of unshakable joy.
~ Goswami Kriyananda
A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
~ Vance Havner
For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people?
~ Denise Hunter
What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?
~ R. C. Sproul
He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.
~ Saint Augustine
I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.
~ Andrew Solomon
When a man's ways please God, the stones of the street shall be at peace with him.
~ Walter Cradock
If I ever tried to take credit for what God deserves the credit, He would be displeased with me, and I'm more interested in pleasing Him than pleasing ego or vanity.
~ Louis Farrakhan
Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
~ Francis Chan
Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day. Daily transgression and daily repentance is not that which is pleasing in the sight of God.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Praying is pleasing to God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita