Quotes About Praise

I'm Irish. I don't know how to take a compliment.

A lot of people are jealous about Man United, so they just keep criticising, even when they win.

Jennifer Aniston is a genius.

John Cena is fantastic, seriously. I hate when people don't give Cena the credit he deserves.

Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no better when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, simple, and despicable; for what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

Be praised, my Lord, through sister water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

But there is a difference between "liturgy" and "worship" in that worship suggests the honor and praise accorded God communally or individually, in the public assembly or in worldly activity, whereas liturgy suggests something that is done communally and publicly, or is at least communal and public in derivation even if it is a ministration extended to those absent from the assembly.

theology needs to develop an idiom that seeks to "glorify God and enjoy him forever.

a demon cannot function in an environment that is hostile to his nature. He cannot function in an atmosphere of praise, for praise binds him (see Psalms 149); and neither can he work in an atmosphere of love, for love is contrary to the devil's nature (see John 8:42–44).

Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.

As far as the praise of knowledge is concerned, al-Askarî otherwise restricts himself to some of the more ordinary statements, such as the hadîth affi rming the Prophet's permission to use attery and show envy in connection with knowledge, or Alî's famous remark that a man's value consists in what he knows or does well.

The knowledge scholars possess causes them to act. Eventually, they will be sought after by the people, but as true scholars, they will flee from all the worldly demands made on them. High praise is due to the man who speaks and knows, who listens and retains, who retains and acts.

But sound aloud the praises, and give the victor-crown To our noble-hearted Firemen, who fear not danger's frown.

The Song of Love, the Song of Hate, the Songs of Praise and of Thanksgiving; I've learned them all, but there remains one called the Melody of Living.

Eternity will not be long enough to learn all He is, or to praise Him for all He has done, but then, that matters not, for we shall be always with Him, and we desire nothing more.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Why should I live but to thy Praise? My life is hid with Thee; O Lord, no longer be my Days, Then I may fruitful be.

I heard the merry grasshopper then sing, The black clad Cricket, bear a second part, They kept one tune, and played on the same string, Seeming to glory in their little Art. Shall Creatures abject, thus their voices raise? And in their kind resound their maker's praise: Whilst I as mute, can warble forth no higher lays?

love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

Now every word of praise came back to him like a hot knife. Every delicious bite of food seemed poisonous.

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Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.