Top 1200 Pleasing God Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to dwell in God's presence, to listen to God's voice, to look at God's beauty, to touch God's incarnate Word and to taste fully God's infinite goodness.

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.

It is obviously pleasing to see your name associated with La Nazionale.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

Intellectually I touched God many times as truth and emotionally I touched God as love. I touched God as goodness. I touched God as kindness. It came to me that God is a creative force, a motivating power, an over-all intelligence, an ever-present, all pervading spirit - which binds everything in the universe together and gives life to everything. That brought God close. I could not be where God is not. You are within God. God is within you.

Performing well's always pleasing, especially when the team gets the win and you can help contribute to it.

Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

My ambition with 'Redoubtable' was to make a film that would be aesthetically pleasing, charming, and touching.

In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

No matter what one looks at and finds temporarily pleasing, it can never be as beautiful as just a tree, really.

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.

We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.

The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.

A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

No brawler in boxing is more crowd-pleasing than Arturo Gatti.

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

I'm a pleaser, but it's not a good thing because you forget about pleasing yourself at the end of the day.

God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.

People in my state, Kerala, have started playing hockey, which is very pleasing to see.

An inswinger - that gets an lbw or bowled - after a few outswingers is always very pleasing.

You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing.

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

I'm always looking to improve as a player and it's very pleasing when you see those improvements.

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

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

There are two gods. The god our teachers teach us about, and the God who teaches us. The god about whom people usually talk, and the God who talks to us. The god we learn to fear, and the God who speaks to us of mercy. The god who is somewhere up on high, and the God who is here in our daily lives. The god who demands punishment, and the God who forgives us our trespasses. The god who threatens us with the torments of Hell, and the God who shows us the true path. There are two gods. A god who casts us off because of our sins, and a God who calls to us with His love.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to God, and most useful to ourselves. Do not then, O devout soul, refuse to begin this devotion; and forsaking the conversation of men, dwell each day, from this time forward, for at least half or quarter of an hour, in some church, in the presence of Jesus Christ under the sacramental species. Taste and see how sweet is the Lord.

She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.