The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
To please the many is to displease the wise.
It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right.
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.
If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.
Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree.
Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.
It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.
If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.
