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  • You must concentrate on pleasing God alone, and if He is pleased, you must be pleased.

  • In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. - In the long run, it's better to please God - he's more apt to remember.

    Running   Men   Long  
    Harry Kemelman (2015). “Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry”, p.52, Open Road Media
  • I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

    Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
  • Don't wait until the moment of crisis. Plan ahead, hide God's Word in your heart, and pray in advance for victory, holiness, and a life pleasing to God.

  • You and I cannot be useful if we want to be sweet as honey in the mouths of men. God will never bless us if we wish to please men, that they may think well of us. Are you willing to tell them what will break your own heart in the telling and break theirs in the hearing? If not, you are not fit to serve the Lord. You must be willing to go and speak for God, though you will be rejected.

    Sweet   Heart   Men  
  • Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

  • At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.

    Desire   Sin   Moments  
  • 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.

    Exercise   May   Doe  
    Martin Luther (1896). “Luther's Primary Works: Together with His Shorter and Larger Catechisms”
  • An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.

  • Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. What it do when it pissed off? I ast. Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

    Thinking   Color   Purple  
  • When you go through a process of #1 praying daily and staying in God's word #2 obey Him in the small decisions every day #3 ask advice from a number of spiritual counselors then you can step out peacefully knowing that pleasing God is all that matters. America was built on this attitude.

    Source: sara-mincy.blogspot.com
  • The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here.

  • If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it’s an error not an end.

    God   Faith   Christian  
    Twitter post from Jun 28, 2016
  • God is bigger than time, dates, and appointments. He wants you to move through this day with a quiet heart, an inward assurance that He is in control, a peaceful certainty that your life is in His hands, a deep trust in His plan and purposes, and a thankful disposition, toward all that He allows. He wants you to put your faith in Him, not in a timetable. He wants you to wait on Him and wait for Him. In His perfect way He will put everything together, see to every detail... arrange every circumstance... and order every step to bring to pass what He has for you.

    Life   Trust   God  
  • And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it's not about pleasing God, it's about learning how to trust God. That's a huge watershed, because trust is a whole different ballgame than appeasement or pleasing.

  • So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.

  • The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And while the Lord desires that we enjoy His gifts and the people to whom we are joined, He wants us to know that we were created first for His pleasure.

  • I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

    Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.29, Ballantine Books
  • Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.

    Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.29, Ballantine Books
  • Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.

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