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Quotes About Praise

Therefore, the reason God seeks our praise is not because He won't be complete until He gets it. He is seeking our praise because we won't be complete until we give it. This is not arrogance. It is love.
~ John Piper
The minuteness of the human race within the vastness of the universe is not an incongruity because the vastness of the universe is not about the greatness of man but about the greatness of God. Man has his greatness, but it lies in his capacity to know and worship the God who calls the universe "the work of [his] fingers" (Ps. 8:3).
~ John Piper
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
~ John Piper
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
~ John Quincy Adams
In Paul's view, there seemed to be three principal ways in which tongues were of value: 1. In private prayer, tongues aided the speaker to praise God. 2. They let the speaker pray even at those times when he or she was not sure what to ask for. 3. And in public worship, when accompanied by another of the nine gifts, "interpretation," tongues provided a vehicle of direct communication between God and His people.
~ John Sherrill
when we say of any one that he is generous. The word generosity expresses a certain state of mind, but being a term of praise, it also expresses that this state of mind excites in us another mental state, called approbation.
~ John Stuart Mill
Patron. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery').
~ John Sutherland
Addicting people to praise as a motivator puts them on a slippery slope toward a lifetime of fear and exploitation, always looking for some expert to approve of them.
~ John Taylor Gatto
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
~ John Updike
Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.
~ John Wesley
Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing Him more than yourself, or any other creature. In order to do this attend strictly to the sense of what you sing, and see that your heart is not carried away with the sound, but offered to God continually; so shall your singing be such as the Lord will approve here, and reward you when he cometh in the clouds of heaven.
~ John Wesley
the power of God came mightily upon us. Many cried out in complete joy. Others were knocked to the ground. As soon as we recovered a little from that awe and amazement at God's presence, we broke out in praise.
~ John Wesley
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
~ John Wooden
If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?
~ Elizabeth Taylor
He knew how warm a thing praise could be, and even in the bitterest days of winter, he who had always felt the cold so, found that appreciation wrapped him like a cloak.
~ Elizabeth Yates
A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
As the sun goes down, let the voice of prayer and the hymn of praise mark the close of the sacred hours and invite God's presence through the cares of the week of labor. Thus parents can make the Sabbath, as it should be, the most joyful day of the week. They can lead their children to regard it as a delight, the day of days, the holy of the Lord, honorable. —Testimonies for the Church, vol. 6, pp. 358, 359.
~ Ellen G. White
Oamenii idolatrizeaz? talentul ?i râvnesc prea mult un anumit statut social. Mult prea mul?i nu vor s? fac? nimic dac? nu sunt recunoscu?i ca lideri; mult prea mul?i trebuie s? primeasc? laude, altfel nu manifest? nici un interes pentru munc?.
~ Ellen G. White
Teach them that the approbation and smiles of Jesus are of greater value than the praise or flattery or approval of the most wealthy, the most exalted, the most learned of the earth.
~ Ellen G. White
Nothing tends more to promote health of body and of soul than does a spirit of gratitude and praise. It is a positive duty to resist melancholy, discontented thoughts and feelings—as much a duty as it is to pray.—(The Ministry of Healing, 251.) [24]
~ Ellen G. White
God loves you. He does not wish to draw you nigh to Him to hurt you, oh, no; but to comfort you, to pour in the oil of rejoicing, to heal the wounds that sin has made, to bind up where Satan has bruised. He wants to give you the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness.—That I May Know Him, p. 246.
~ Ellen G. White
In God we may "rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory" (1 Peter 1:8). "Men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed" (Psalm 72:17). Let
~ Ellen G. White
Rather than praising their personalities or intelligence ("You are so smart" or "artistic" or "athletic"), criticizing them ("You are so stupid" or "uncoordinated"), or attributing their accomplishments to luck, we can praise their efforts or strategies.
~ Ellen Galinsky
Husbands have tender egos, even if they garner their compliments from unlikely places.
~ Eloisa James