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“Trials may come - and we may not understand everything that happens to us or around us. But if we humbly, quietly trust in the Lord, He will give us guidance and strength in every challenge we face. When our only desire is to please Him, we will be blessed with a deep inner peace.”

Ifs Giving May Happens Faces Desire Challenges Lord Please Blessed Inner Peace Trials Guidance Being Blessed Challenges We Face Trust In The Lord

Author:Bruce D. Porter

“If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we find new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.”

Ifs Men Helping Running Action Desire Taken Habit Please Activity Elements Track Selfish Selfishness Help Me Thoughts And Actions

Book:Self-culture, lectures

Source: Self-culture, lectures

“The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the men who are their dads and stepdads; less shame for our sons who will become men; and, for our daughters, a deeper understanding of men's desire to please that leaves them feeling their willingness to please is not unrequited but returned - allowing our daughters to feel less lonely and more loved. If we earn more and love less, we pay for a home in which we do not live.”

“A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.”

Men Heart Desire Grows Please

Book:A Young Man After God's Own Heart: A Teen's Guide to a Life of Extreme Adventure

Source: A Young Man After God's Own Heart: A Teen's Guide to a Life of Extreme Adventure

“You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of someone else, you are motivated by your desire to please that person. And if you stop reading, you will not do so because you have stopped desiring but because your desires have changed.”

Ifs Persons Desire Reading Changed Please Motivated

Book:On Desire: Why We Want what We Want

Source: On Desire: Why We Want what We Want

“The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.”

Men Should Made Desire Dangerous Please Concerned Blessed Profession Reputation Bother Faithful Rising Preacher Bondage Dangerous Things Castaway

Author:Vance Havner

“Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.”

May Desire Order Pleasure Grace Please Sick Pity Ease Sickness Vigor Delicacy Infirmity Gracefulness

Book:Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education

Source: Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education

“In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.”

Ifs Desire Grows Please News Court Wit Labour Discourse Courtesy Usefulness Courteous

Book:The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir

Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir

“The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.”

Desire Please Conscience Admire Cripples

Book:Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with these, he will do so; otherwise it is enough for him that God commands, and enough for them that he cannot disobey.”

World Enough Christian Desire Objects Duty Please Command Consistently

Book:Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

“Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!”

Long Shows Desire Arms Please Mercy Embrace Chairs Courtesy Pretension Euphemism

Author:Moliere

“Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.”

Thinking Wells Desire Difficult Common Please Common Sense

Author:Rene Descartes

“The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.”

Art Real Desire Actors Acting Emotion Please Essence Dramatic Faculty Feminine Defects Facility Provinces Assimilation Artifice

Book:The Art of the Theatre

Source: The Art of the Theatre

“[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.”

Humans May Book Desire Sleep Information Ready Please Spring Breasts Neglected

Book:Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry

Source: Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry

“It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.”

Knows Men Doe Desire Common Please Common Sense

Book:The Modern Chesterfield

Source: The Modern Chesterfield

“O love, please give me a passionate red recycling bin. I will put my desire in it. I don't ever want to throw love away.”

Want Giving Desire Please Red Give Me Passionate Recycling

Author:Derrick Williams

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