Pleasing People Rather Than God Quotes

#1. But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it?

Umberto Eco

#2. If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?

Andrew Solomon

#3. I assume the Spirit is always whispering, "Abba", to God's children, assuring them that they are safe in His care. And he is continually calling them to become what God saved them to be, solid people, indestructibly alive, hurting perhaps, but consumed with pleasing the Father.

Larry Crabb

#4. If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.

Venerable Bede

#5. The increased desire to please God and seek HIS approval will decrease the desire to seek approval from man.

Yvonne Pierre

#6. 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.

Francis Frangipane

#7. Who can understand the deeply bonded alloy of order and intemperance that is its foundation?

Thomas Mann

#8. the two biggest hindrances to living the life God designed you to live: Wanting to be like others (envy), and wanting to be liked by others (people-pleasing.) These traps are subtle, but they distract and detour millions of people from the purposes they were created to fulfill.

Rick Warren

#9. You are evil woman, just plain evil.

Carroll Bryant

#10. In our twenty first century social media world, people are so eager to have likes from friend on social media for what they do; their writings, images and videos but they are not so eager to have they like of God for what they do or refuse to do!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#11. The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

Louise Brown

#12. People whose minds are not strengthened for endurance are by no means always unintelligent. They simply have never stopped to think that the use of the mind for the purpose of growth is a necessary part of a God-pleasing lifestyle.

Gordon MacDonald

#13. God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

Saint Augustine

#14. 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.

Alice Walker

#15. One of the things pleasing in God's sight is that his people keep on drawing near to him forever and ever. And so he is working in us this very thing.

John Piper

#16. Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#17. A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

Nelson Shanks

#18. Don't always deprive yourself trying to please others

Sunday Adelaja

#19. I watch just as much WWE as almost anyone, but I love to. It's something I enjoy doing. I don't force myself to watch. I get excited for Mondays. I get excited to see the show.

John Cena

#20. People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.

Reggie White

#21. Though it's thousands of miles away
Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today
Over here, its a drug trade, we die from drugs
Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs

Kanye West

#22. It's not necessary to blow out your neighbor's light to let your own shine.

M. R. DeHaan