There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in one sense there are no breaks or divisions - seed time flows on to flowering time and harvest time; no sooner is one thing dying than another is coming to life.
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
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.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. Everyone needs to be touched by the comfort and attraction of God’s saving love, which is mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and failings.
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.
We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.
No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.
No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.
Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.
I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude that, if they are forcibly awakened, they still regret the loss of their pleasing vision.
To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable.
Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.