Quotes About Please God

#1. May God enable me to have a single eye and a simple heart, desiring to please God, to do good to my fellow creatures, and testify my gratitude to my adorable Redeemer.

William Wilberforce

#2. Constant endeavor to please God comes from love to God, called forth by wonder at the divine work of creation that surrounds us and by a greater wonder at the divine work of redemption that saves us.

J.I. Packer

#3. And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers.

Rick Riordan

#4. The good works of the unsaved may indeed benefit their fellow-creatures; but until life in Christ has been received, they cannot please God.

Hudson Taylor

#5. a prayer marched through my head, though prayer is not the right word to describe that march. I wasn't humble before God. I didn't even believe in God. My prayer was not: Please, God, take mercy on us. I

Cheryl Strayed

#6. There is no work better than to please God; to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a cobbler, or an apostle, all are one; to wash dishes and to preach are all one, as touching the deed, to please God.

William Tyndale

#7. If you are going to experience the joy of your freedom in Christ, you have to decide whether you will please God or people.

Jerry Bridges

#8. Did not just admit that I loved him. Please God, let him think I said something else - anything else. Like maybe I dove you. That was better.

J. Lynn

#9. 7The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. 8Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

Anonymous

#10. Make me a part of this place. Make me a part of Caitlin. Please, God, I love her so.

Susan Wiggs

#11. If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

Abraham Cahan

#12. Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

Saint Ignatius

#13. Don't try to impress God with your works" or "Don't attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don't try to keep the rules and regulations in order to earn your salvation." He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of utterly casual Christians and wondered, "Who's trying?

Martin E. Marty

#14. That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

Isaac Barrow

#15. General Lee, if it will please God, we will kill them all.

Jeff Shaara

#16. How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool.

Simon Raven

#17. A man after God's own heart is ...
a man who yearns to please God,
a man who desires to grow spiritually,
a man who had a heart that obeys.

Jim George

#18. Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

Thomas Leuthard

#20. Disquiet and desire. What you want and what you're scared to try for. Where you've been and where you want to go. Something in a rock-and-roll song about wanting the girl, the car, the place to stand and be. Oh please God can you dig it.

Stephen King

#21. Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

Timothy Keller

#22. The purpose of worship is to please God, and that every word and act in worship creates a witness about God as well as an offering to Him

Matthew James Elliott

#23. The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people.

Anne Graham Lotz

#24. Bless God, he went as soldiers,
His musket on his breast
Grant God, he charge the bravest
Of all the martial blest!
Please God, might I behold him
In epauletted white
I should not fear the foe then
I should not fear the fight!

Emily Dickinson

#25. Now this faith, the apostle declares, is indispensable in order to please God. No wonder; anything less is to treat God as if He were unreal and unreliable, and is practical atheism. It is to make His Word less sure than a mere material fact of nature

A.B. Simpson

#26. 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.

Harry Kemelman

#27. God, please God, touch me, inflame me, burn me, drive me insane with desire but don't let go of me, do not let go of me. - GABRIEL -

Chris Lange

#28. It is possible to know when, at least basically, we please God. In fact, Joseph Smith taught that one of the conditions of genuine faith is to have "an actual knowledge that the course of life which [one] is pursuing is according to [God's] will."

Neal A. Maxwell

#29. I got a funny feeling like something was real wrong ...
Looked at her shoes and her feets was real long!
Then it hit me, Oh please God no,
Don't let this ho turn out to be a John Doe ...
He pulled a fast one on me, yo!

Fatlip

#30. Only a lover of animals will understand the sudden feeling of loss, of emptiness, and the intuitive bond which exists between man and dog, has always existed from the beginning and will, please God, continue to the end.

Daphne Du Maurier

#31. If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.

Ezra Taft Benson

#32. Because it is in giving of ourselves and our possessions that we best please God; by actions, not words. And all men do deserve a chance to earn God's grace.

Susanna Kearsley

#33. Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#34. In looking forward to what remains to be done, my readers will perhaps echo what my publishers say, "Please God to spare you!" I only ask to be less tormented by men and things than I have hitherto been since I began this terrific labor. I

Honore De Balzac

#35. A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

Vance Havner

#36. Through trial, I've learned to be myself, and strive not to please man but to please God.

Susan Elliott

#37. I love you. It's our beginning, our middle, and one day
please God, a long way from here
our end. And It is the truth.

Alexandra Bracken

#38. I am tired. Too full of stuff I've done. Where my legs hurt where my scalp hurts. I'll not fight the thing inside me anymore. Let it eat me up. Please God. I want it to.

Eimear McBride

#39. Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name. 16 And don't forget to do good and to share with those in need. These are the sacrifices that please God.

Anonymous

#40. Temptation is an opportunity to please God and shame the devil.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#41. None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and plentiful ... it is not lawful for us to hate, and so we please God more when we render no requital for injury ... we repay your hatred with kindness.

Cyprian

#42. after an indeterminate amount of time having only bed baths? I'm fine with the safety belt - hell, do I want to fall on the hard floor? No, please, God, no.

Anonymous

#43. Please God, please God, can you please tell me why? I ask this of you, yet in my heart, I know.

Rita Leganski

#44. Please, God. Help me. Take this pain away. Please fill this loneliness with your love. Help me, God, please, help me.

David

#45. If you want to please God, believe God.

Jentezen Franklin

#46. Human relationships are most satisfying when we enter them not just to please ourselves or even the other person, but to please God.

Tim Lane And Paul Tripp

#47. Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.

Reggie Jackson

#48. Many believers' entire lives are reduced to nothing more than a sin management program, running the endless treadmill of trying to please God by doing more for Him or trying to sin less.

Paul Silway

#49. We can please God by his power.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#50. Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

Kingsley Amis

#51. Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.

Philip Yancey

#52. To please God ... to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness ... to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.

C.S. Lewis

#53. If you think I'm afraid of the steel cage ... YOU'RE RIGHT! Please God, don't make me go into the cage!

Stevie Richards

#54. Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.

Saint Francis De Sales

#55. When I take hold of Jesus by faith as my only hope to please God, God declares that I am justified. Christ's righteousness becomes mine. That's grace.

Gloria Furman

#56. I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

Yasser Arafat

#57. 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.

Lysa TerKeurst

#58. There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.

Robert Penn Warren

#59. Please God ... lead me to that kind of love. Until then, help me to know that You are enough.

Karen Kingsbury

#60. I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I don't pray to God any more. I might use the usual phrases I picked up from my parents, 'Oh, if God spares me next year ... ' or 'Please God ... ' but they're only phrases.

Cilla Black

#61. An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none.

Arthur W. Pink

#62. Finally, his eyes locked on hers, and she gave him a huge, teary-eyed smile. She couldn't tell if he counted because his lips were stretched around the appliance that had kept him breathing. Be in there, Blake. Please. Please, God.

Debra Anastasia

#63. It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#64. Please, dear God. Let her come back. You can have whatever you like. All my magazines, all my books, my things. Whatever you want. But just make it so she comes back. To me. Please, please God.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#65. You must please God and not man with your ministry

Sunday Adelaja

#66. I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.

Mary Engelbreit

#67. The two chief teachings of this religion are these," said Rumfoord: "Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God. "Why

Kurt Vonnegut

#68. You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.

John Hagee

#69. If hunger could please God, millions hadn't starved to death.

Syed Arshad

#70. Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew. We have no need of works in order to be righteous; however, in order to avoid idleness and so that the body might be cared for an disciplined, works are done freely to please God.

Martin Luther

#71. By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.

William McKinley

#72. 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

#73. Please God, when I open my eyes, make this nightmare disappear.

Catherine Jane Fisher

#74. true wisdom always leads us to please God.

Anthony DeStefano

#75. Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it's a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you've not been in a war, even if you've just been in the Forces, you come back and probably have more fights in civilian life.

Martin Freeman

#76. As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"

Ellen Glasgow

#77. It's better to please God and have a few people upset with you than to please people and have God upset with you.

Joel Osteen

#78. Rest in peace? Please, God, no. Haunt me, Sofia. You said you'd haunt me.

Helen Maryles Shankman

#79. We often seek to please ourselves first, instead of God. What is interesting is that when we seek to please God first, very often we discover that we end up far more pleased than we did when we put ourselves first.

Billy Graham

#80. Not only do our prayers please God, the Holy Spirit uses them to accomplish heaven's purpose on earth.

Bryan Chapell

#81. Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!

Sigourney Weaver

#82. Please God, don't let anyone take her. If you give me this, I swear to wake her every morning with 'good morning, beautiful' and kiss her to sleep every night. I'll keep her safe and hold her tight. I'll take of her, I swear.

S.E. Hall

#83. When a man's ways please God, the stones of the street shall be at peace with him.

Walter Cradock

#84. Help me. Please, God help me...

Christa Faust

#85. Are you still trying to please God with your own works? Isaiah makes it clear, your efforts cannot purchase what you need. You need living water. You need Jesus.

Todd Friel

#86. You cannot please God without offending the unholy devil .

Osunsakin Adewale

#87. [Our physical illnesses] serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

John Calvin

#88. I always say a little prayer when I put cakes in the oven," remarked Eve, as she stopped to kiss Rose good-bye.
"What do you say?"
"I say, 'Please, God, don't let me forget I've put that cake in the oven.

Hilary McKay

#89. It is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him. Hebrews 11:6

Tony Dungy

#90. I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'

Don McCullin

#91. I offer it to you because there exists not only comradeship, but a very different thing, called friendship; an agreement under all the arguments and a thread which, please God, will never break.

G.K. Chesterton

#92. Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.

Francis Chan

#93. 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

#94. The Holy Scriptures are that divine instrument by which we are taught what to believe, concerning God, ourselves, and all things, and how to please God unto eternal life.

John Robinson

#95. But I can please God

Craig Groeschel

#96. You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him, and in everything to seek Him alone and His glory.

Alphonsus Rodriguez

#97. Please God, I'm begging you

Sarah Dessen

#98. The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

N. T. Wright

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

Yvonne Pierre

#100. Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?

Francis Chan