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Quotes About Praise

Qué indefenso está el hombre ante los elogios!
~ Milan Kundera
Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.
~ Plato
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
~ Ridgely Torrence
I just want to give my love to God.
~ Sharon Jones
I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.
~ William Rounseville Alger
Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.
~ Benjamin Franklin
We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit.
~ Betty White
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
~ Edward Young
True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.
~ Emanuel Geibel
Looks like Kelsey wins the award for early riser. And doesn't she look purtier than a pat of butter meltin' all over a stack of griddle cakes?
~ Colleen Houck
Let the ruins come to lifeIn the beauty of Your nameRising up from the ashesGod forever You reign
~ Hillsong
Worship is not love.
~ Donald Hall
Father God, we thank You for Your Marvelous, Creation! We are Fearfully and Wonderfully made. We give You praise, honor and glory!
~ Pazaria Smith
Good boy, said Dr. Van Helsing. Brave boy. Quincey is all man. God bless him for it.
~ Bram Stoker
This forced you to look again at the people who raised them, coddling them with praise and trying to shield them from the grim sides of life, which might well have created children who, as adults, appeared highly confident, competent and positive but at the hint of darkness or negativity often became paralyzed and unable to react except with disbelief and tears—You just victimized me!—and retreated, in effect, into their childhood bubbles.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Brilliant, Piter! I'm glad I didn't execute you all those times when you were so annoying.' 'So am I,' de Vries said.
~ Brian Herbert
Songs: What if for the next three hundred years, we sang about love and justice (which has been defined by philosopher Cornel West as "what love looks like in public") as much as we've sung about sin and forgiveness over the last three hundred years? Imagine if every week God were praised and worshipped above all as the source and epitome of love.
~ Brian McLaren
The mystery of the God-man was central to Christian worship long before it became central to Christian thinking. "A deep instinct," J. S. Whale once told the undergraduates at Cambridge University, "has always told the Church that our safest eloquence concerning the mystery of Christ is in our praise. A living Church is a worshiping, singing Church; not a school of people holding all the correct doctrines.
~ Bruce L. Shelley
We may assume God gave us music just to make us happy, not holy; he actually gave us music to make us happy and holy.
~ C.J. Mahaney
set the conversation to Mozart's Offertory in D Minor, "Misericordias Domini.
~ Carl Hiaasen
That's my clever girl.
~ Teresa Medeiros
We — you and I — are fearfully and wonderfully made. His works are wonderful (Psalm 139:1 – 5, 13 – 14).
~ Terri Blackstock
Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.
~ Terry Pratchett