A Quote by Dorothy Kelley Patterson

If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.

Dorothy Kelley Patterson

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Everything God Man Never Nothing Please

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Dorothy Kelley Patterson
Writer
Born: 1943

When I was first writing, my little prayers were, 'Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.' Then it went to, 'Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.'

Judy Blume

There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You can't please God and please man at the same time. It's impossible; you can't do it. You've got to choose one.

Israel Folau

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

Mark Twain

Please, please, please, please, please...,", squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.

Mitch Albom

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.

Edwin Louis Cole

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

Malorie Blackman

God tells me to cover myself, to hide my beauty and to tell the world that I’m not here to please men with my body; I’m here to please God. God elevates the dignity of a woman’s body by commanding that it be respected and covered, shown only to the deserving - only to the man I marry.

Yasmin Mogahed

Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right and what's wrong. I can't tell anymore. I could be doing what I feel is right and perhaps I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps it's all my ego and my vanity. Please show me what's right or don't even show me. Please just do it, whether it brings me happiness or unhappiness, riches or poverty, sorrow or joy. Please act in and through me. I love only you.

Frederick Lenz

When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn't going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that's been my aim. Some people don't understand, but you can't please everybody anyway.

Anne Graham Lotz

If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.