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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.
A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
Every man makes a god of his own desire.
Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.