True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.
I think it's the strange irony that we make all these life choices before we're 40, because really we shouldn't make any until we're 40. It almost feels like you get a software upgrade and you start to experience life in such a different way, because you just don't suffer fools, you go straight for what means something and what feels good, and you stop caring about pleasing other people.
Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.
Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness. ' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins.
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing.
Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.
Do not distress yourself on account of any distaste or dryness you experience in God's service. He wills that you should serve Him fervently and constantly it is true, but without any other help than simple faith, and thus your love will be more disinterested, and your service the more pleasing to Him.
We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway.
To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable.
The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined to be satisfied with such results as can be obtained by doing things they like to do. The common denominator of success - the secret of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.
It is not enough to be abstinent with other people, you also have to be abstinent alone. The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. You can't masturbate without lust!. . . You're going to be pleasing each other. And if he already knows what pleases him and he can please himself, then why am I in the picture?
Snow is all right while it is snowing; it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when it is going.
There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him.
In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.