Quotes About Pleasing

When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.

Grace is an empowerment to be above and beyond reproach, to live your life at a standard that pleases God.

Watch over me, Father, so that everything I do may be with the intention of pleasing Jesus.

I've never been desperate to please my father.

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.

Food that's beautiful to look at seems to taste better than food that isn't.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Our sanctification does not depend upon changing what we do, but in doing for God's sake what we normally do for our own sake. It is sad to see how many people mistake the means for the end, addicting themselves to religious works, which they perform very imperfectly because of their human or selfish motives. The most excellent method he had found of going to God was to do our normal activities without any view of pleasing men, and (as far as we are able) purely for the love of God.

What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.

Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feeling, but only if it relies on the Word of God.

But to fulfill the law means to do its work eagerly, lovingly and freely, without the constraint of the law; it means to live well and in a manner pleasing to God, as though there were no law or punishment.

Those who are already righteous and heirs of eternal life through Christ, whose merit they accept by faith — they do good, not with the purpose of attaining eternal life, to which they are already entitled by an alien merit, namely, Christ's, but with the purpose of being pleasing and obedient to the divine voice, so that the glory of God as well as holy teaching and life are promoted.

In everything we do or experience we should have a happy heart and know that for Christ's sake we are in grace and that everything we do pleases God, even the fact that out of the needs of the body we eat and drink and do our work.

28. God's love does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it. Human love comes into being through that which is pleasing to it.

The love of God does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it.

If Christ is at the center—if He is the one who has forever swept her off her feet—she makes sure that her attitude and speech and conduct are pleasing to Him. She seeks to walk in His way. Her eyes are ever toward the Lord (Psalm 25:15).

One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful; joy softens more hearts than tears do.

Many conflicts in a marriage result from living to please self instead of living to please the Lord. These conflicts can be resolved and are actually opportunities for spiritual growth when dealt with in a biblical manner.