Sentence examples for is displeasing to from inspiring English sources

Presumably also then, being murdered because of their sexuality is displeasing to Him.

Somewhere towards the book's end, discussing self-satisfaction, I say that although smugness is displeasing to witness, it is a great deal more agreeable to experience than its opposite.

Because I'd never been taught about original sin and its hold on the whole human race, and how man in sin is displeasing to God, in a way I was totally protected from the Christian faith.' During his first year at the AA, a friend took him to Westminster Chapel to hear a famous preacher called Dr Martin Lloyd-Jones, a Welsh former heart physician.

The son, we are told, "does what is displeasing to God," and he dies.

We actually stop living in the moment choosing instead to keep RE-LIVING the thing that is displeasing to us.

It is quite likely that Queen Victoria never said it, and to trot it out every time anything happens that might be displeasing to the Queen is not amusing at all.

But the arrangement between Rory and his cousin and brother-in-law, Niall Garvach O'Donnell, insisted upon by the government was displeasing to both O'Donnells, and Rory, like Hugh Roe before him, entered into negotiations with Spain.

139 Here I am constrained perforce to declare an opinion which will be displeasing to most; but I will not refrain from uttering what seems to me to be p443 true.

So much life is missed as we stay stuck in the very experiences that are displeasing to us.

The loss of peace and joy arises when people behave in ways that are displeasing to us and life circumstances unfold in ways that are not aligned with our plans.

The word makruh, which not only literally means dislike, but is also used as a legal standard to denote actions that are displeasing to God, also comes from the same root.