A Quote by Leonard Ravenhill

If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?

Leonard Ravenhill

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Leonard Ravenhill
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1907 - 1994

If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.

Steve Lawson

It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.

Adrian Rogers

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.

Saint Augustine

To please the many is to displease the wise.

Plutarch

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

William Hazlitt

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

William Hazlitt

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Francis Bacon

No matter who we are, God does not adapt to please us; we always have to adapt to him.

Reinhard Bonnke

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Willa Cather

If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.

Neale Donald Walsch

What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's no longer much meaning in asking whose ax is bloodier. Evil, on evil, piled on evil. Was there any justification in our 'police action' in space? How can we know? Certainly there was no justification for what they did - or was there? We only know what that thing says, and that thing is a captive. The Asian radio has to say what will least displease it's government; ours has to say what will least displease our fine patriotic opinionated rabble, which is what, coincidentally, the government wants it to say anyhow, so where's the difference?

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

Oliver Goldsmith

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Brigham Young

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

Horace

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.