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14May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. — Anonymous

Much ingenious interpretation of story is little more than seeing pleasing patterns in the sparks of a fire, but it does no harm. — Philip Pullman

If you are too afraid to offend anyone, then I'm afraid you may not be able to do anything remarkable — Bernard Kelvin Clive

There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him. — Rick Warren

Sin compels man to do those things that are not pleasing to God — Sunday Adelaja

There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others. — Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Nor was Mr. Bumble's gloom the only thing calculated to awaken a pleasing melancholy in the bosom of a spectator. There — Charles Dickens

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

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts. — Zadie Smith

To seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man. — Alexandre Dumas

Anyone who doesn't want you to be happy with who you are is an asshole. Fuck pleasing everyone else. You only live once. Who are you gonna do it for? — Dahlia Adler

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. — Edmund Spenser

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

We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don't waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be. — Paulo Coelho

Nothing felt as right as pleasing a woman with his littermate beside him. As — Cherise Sinclair

If you see me standing on my head, I'm trying to cheer you up with my frown. I need my honesty, you my pleasantry. — Brian Spellman

Abilene (AB-a-lene) adj. Descriptive of the pleasing coolness on the reverse side of the pillow. — Douglas Adams

Oh for holiness!
Oh for more of God in my soul!
Oh this pleasing pain!
It makes my soul press after God — David Brainerd

It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people. — Kym Whitley

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor

For the record, I do have genitals; and they are functional and aesthetically pleasing. — Chuck Lorre

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll,
In pleasing memory of all he stole. — Alexander Pope

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will. — Margaret Atwood

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

The dreams weren't as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true — Ann Brashares

All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things. — John Owen

his manner most pleasing and his voice deep and masculine. David stepped aside to allow Kathleen — Ellen Gable

Paul was far more concerned with obeying his divine calling than with gaining man's approval. Only one thing mattered - pleasing the Master. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. — Marianne Moore

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming. — Quintilian

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate. — Anne Hathaway

A smile is the most pleasing sight one could behold when talking to another person. — Ronald A. Valentino

In the end it had to do with stroking my own ego, not pleasing you, Sir. — Red Phoenix

Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify. — Ovid

God knows who you are! God knows why you are here! Don't live a different you! Don't disappoint God! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself. — Margaret Of Valois

The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the art. — Charles Sovek

Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God. — Kevin DeYoung

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. — Wallace Shawn

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

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing. — Agnes Repplier

There is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass. — Lawrence Giustiniani

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother. — Janet Malcolm

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

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

Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me. — Thomas Gainsborough

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Every one of us will have situations in life where we must choose between pleasing people and our calling — Sunday Adelaja

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions. — Thomas More

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. — John Ruskin

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations. — Richard Steele

Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God. — Edward McKendree Bounds

If I am trying to please God, it is difficult to trust God. But when I trust God, pleasing him is automatic. — Emily P. Freeman

A true friend cares more about what is right than about pleasing you. — Gary Chapman

Winning one soul for JESUS CHRIST worth more than being famous in pleasing a sinful world — James C. Uwandu

You must concentrate on pleasing God alone, and if He is pleased, you must be pleased. — Pio Of Pietrelcina

If the greatest danger one faces as a slave is displeasing one's masters, this is the second: pleasing them. — Jacqueline Carey

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people. — Will Cuppy

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. — Oliver Goldsmith

Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice. — Miguel De Cervantes

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

I can't compete for likes and follows, I won't win. What I will do is pour out my heart and allow love to reach those that need it. — E'yen A. Gardner

A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people. — R. Kent Hughes

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

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you. — Anne Rice

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true — Leonard Nimoy

Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another? — Ezra Taft Benson

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes. — Robert Rodriguez

Even when others don't understand, masters recognize their allegiance is to a higher calling than pleasing the masses. — Jeff Goins

Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people — Marc Jacobs

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform. — Seth

I do not like your name, sir," she answered.
"There was no thought of pleasing you when I was christened." he quoted lazily. — Georgette Heyer

Pleasing and appeasing our master and God at the same time was impossible. — Tehmina Durrani

Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible. — Judah Ben Samuel Of Regensburg

Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about it. — Jeffrey Fry

I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line. — Elizabeth McCracken

I remembered something my mother used to say. "The devil can quote scripture." "And in a pleasing voice," Mrs. Shoplaw agreed moodily. — Stephen King

True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true. — Laozi

I'd been doing everything to please everyone else and some imaginary me. — Jolene Stockman

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. — Virgil

What can I say, I'm not a people pleasing person. — Kim Dallmeier

There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one. — Antoine Rivarol

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself. — Elizabeth Fry

It shall be a duty and a pleasing sport to wander with Momus beneath the tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere. — O. Henry

Looks aren't everything," Kate said. "After all," she quoted, "'the devil hath power t'assume a pleasing shape. — Suzanne Harper

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

[N]othing is so pleasing to perplexed unhappy people as the denunciation of others, — H.G.Wells

So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first. — Lillian Russell

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system. — Benjamin Disraeli

I think it's really important to follow your intuition and gut, and try not to do things just for the sake of pleasing other people. — Erin Davie

for pleasing to me are meadows and a far view — Sandra Dallas

Sometimes the rain was more pleasing than the sun. Sometimes the hurt was more fulfilling than the healing. And sometimes the pieces of a puzzle were — Brittainy C. Cherry

No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God. — Alexander Whyte

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given. — Julian Of Norwich

You are an enchanting person, rather old fashioned for this modern world, but very enchanting and pleasing. — Shirley Sealy

It will be most pleasing to O[ur] L[ord] if you husband your strength in order to serve Him better. — Vincent De Paul