Quotes about Displeasure
But she did not suffer so much, because she despised the triviality of these other people.
— DH Lawrence
God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.
— Alphonsus Liguori
They all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink… . But God was not pleased with most of them. 1 Corinthians 10:3—5
— Beth Moore
The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing.
— Martin Luther
How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.
— DH Lawrence
By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.
— Aesop
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
— Milan Kundera
Judging is a defense mechanism. If anger in its purest form is temporary displeasure, then judgment is permanent rejection.
— Lisa Bevere
She judged people smartly and quickly, and often found herself in a huff.
— Alice Hoffman
Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displacency against an apprehended evil, which would cross or hinder us of some desired good.
— Richard Baxter
Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.
— Charles Swindoll
It does not matter as much what bad is in us as what is good; not what corruptions remain but how we regard them; not what our particular failings are so much as what the thread and tenor of our lives are, for Christ's displeasure of that which is wrong in us does not turn to his hatred of us but to his victory over all of our weaknesses.
— Richard Sibbes