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Quotes About Praise

Humility is the flip side of giving God all the glory. Humility means reveling in his grace, not our goodness.
~ John Piper
God is not worshiped where He is not treasured and enjoyed.
~ John Piper
God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything else, would be sin, as there is nothing greater than God, there is no calling greater than praising God.
~ John Piper
This is the meaning of Christmas. Oh, that God would waken your heart to your deep need for mercy as a sinner! And then ravish your heart with a great Savior, Jesus Christ. And then release your tongue to praise him and your hands to make his mercy shine in yours.
~ John Piper
This is why it is often called sovereign grace: it raises the dead. The dead do not raise themselves. God does by his grace. And it is this "glorious grace" that will be praised for all eternity.
~ John Piper
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)
~ John Piper
The world and even thousands of Christians give no praise and thanks to God for millions of daily, life-sustaining providences because they do not see the world as the theater of God's wonders. They see it as a vast machine running on mindless natural laws
~ John Piper
The magnifying of Christ in the white-hot worship of all nations is the reason the world exists.
~ John Piper
praise comes from God as we renounce the pursuit of praise from others.
~ John Piper
The aim of the climb is not intellectual satisfaction. The aim is worship. God gets more honor when we worship on the basis of what we know about him than he gets if we worship on the basis of what we don't know.
~ John Piper
God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about him. Indeed
~ John Piper
Worship is nothing less than obedience to the command of God: "Delight yourself in the Lord"!
~ John Piper
1) Singing can help us remember words, which means that we should use melodies that are effective, sing words that God wants us to remember
~ John Piper
the destruction of conceived human life—whether embryonic, fetal, or viable—is an assault on the unique person-forming work of God. And therefore to the degree that we recognize even in fallen person-hood a unique value, because of its potential to glorify God with conscious obedience and praise, to that degree will we shrink back with reverence and fear from assaulting or obstructing the
~ John Piper
I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.
~ John Piper
Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you" (1Chronicles 29:14). This is the way we should speak of fasting. There is no ground of boasting here. Who am I that I should be able to fast? Nobody. There is nothing in me that would choose this for your glory apart from your transforming grace.
~ John Piper
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
~ John Piper
True worship must include inward feelings that reflect the worth of God's glory.
~ John Piper
The rejoicing of all peoples in God, and the magnifying of God's glory are one end, not two. Why
~ John Piper
If we aim in what we do to display God's glory, we worship.
~ John Piper
God is glorified not only by His glory's being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
~ John Piper
The lovers of God's Word praise the preciousness of the Bible and the pleasures it brings. They
~ John Piper
God is not worshiped where He is not treasured and enjoyed. Praise is not an alternative to joy, but the expression of joy. Not to enjoy God is to dishonor Him. To say to Him that something else satisfies you more is the opposite of worship. It is sacrilege.
~ John Piper
Toda buena obra debiera ser una revelación de la gloria de Dios.
~ John Piper