Divine pleasure Quotes

There is the type of man who gives his life to earn the pleasure of Allah...

Where women are honored, there the gods are pleased; but where they are not honored, no sacred rite yields rewards.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

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.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

I just want to encourage every one of us to realize when we obey God, we’re not doing it for God—I mean, that’s one way to look at it—we’re doing it for ourselves, because God takes pleasure when we’re happy. That’s the thing that gives Him the greatest joy. So, I want you to know this morning: Just do good for your own self. Do good because God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you’re not doing it for God really. You’re doing it for yourself, because that’s what makes God happy. Amen?

When we obey God, we're not doing it for God... we're doing it for ourself. Because God takes pleasure when we're happy.

If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

The Lord blesses people who bless others, and He gives grace to those who focus on the things that please Him.

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.

When the kirtan is harmonious with so many people, it’s a tumultuous beautiful sound. We can’t hear just one voice during the chorus; or rather we do hear one voice. But that one voice is actually the sound of everyone’s voice in harmony. That’s our offering to God. And why is it so pleasing to the Lord? Because we are all cooperating for a higher purpose. We are all united for the pleasure of the center, for the pleasure of Krishna, in spite of all our differences.

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. What it do when it pissed off? I ast. Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

You are Gods chief creation, and you are here for His pleasure and His glory.

We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.

You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.