Divine Pleasing Quotes

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.

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

One does not structure the church to meet the felt needs and desires of the tares. The purpose of corporate assembly, which has its roots in the Old Testament, is for the people of God to come together corporately to offer their sacrifices of praise and worship to God. So the first rule of worship is that it be designed for believers to worship God in a way that pleases God.

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.

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

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.

God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God.

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.

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

If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.