The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. Author: Billy Graham |
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety. Author: A.W. Tozer |
I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. Author: C.S. Lewis Source: Reflections on the Psalms |
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about. Author: C.S. Lewis Source: Reflections on the Psalms |
People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs. Author: C.S. Lewis Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost |
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. Author: Blaise Pascal |
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a 'but'. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |
It is not possible to eat meat without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky |
The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism will build us up. But if praise inflates us, then criticism will crush us; and both responses lead to our defeat. Author: Warren Wiersbe |
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice. Author: John Calvin |
The climax of God's happiness is the delight He takes in the echoes of His excellence in the praises of His people. Author: John Piper |
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. Author: Jonathan Edwards |