Quotes About Praise

God has been great and He has done great things in our lives.

The hero worship had just become obvious. He felt that he ought to be resenting it. All the same, the whiff of incense was not unsweet in his nostrils. Rather the reverse.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons will bow down to you. "You are a lion's cub, O Judah; you return from the prey, my son. "Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? "The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is his.

People here worship the sun." "Yes, but my people worship the God who made the sun.

escribía sus Elogios de los escritores célebres

la gratitud, según lo creo, es entre las demás virtudes sumamente de alabar y su contraria de maldecir

Admiradores A admiração, mesmo a mais calorosa, tem sempre um subentendido de condescendência, isto é, a certeza de uma superioridade.

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.

Colonnese praised the film for depicting "the terrible effects of hate and prejudice, and seems to say that life can only go on if one triumphs over these emotions.

Show me a church's songs and I'll show you their theology.

The key to life in the Spirit for some is to spend much more quiet time in thanksgiving and praise for what God has done—and is doing, and promises to do—and less time on introspection, focused on your failure to match up to the law.

In singing the psalms, one is actively committing oneself to following the God-approved life. This is what we are doing singing the psalms.

Lord, make my heart a place where angels sing!

The bat is dun with wrinkled wings Like fallow article, And not a song pervades his lips, Or none perceptible. His small umbrella, quaintly halved, Describing in the air An arc alike inscrutable, – Elate philosopher! Deputed from what firmament Of what astute abode, Empowered with what malevolence Auspiciously withheld. To his adroit Creator Ascribe no less the praise; Beneficent, believe me, His eccentricities.

Flattery is like champagne; it soon goes to the head.

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect. The plan of the newspaper is good and wise; when you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity; and I know that praise rightly given, implying real success and assuring us that we have done what we strove to do, is what you say — just vital oxygen.

[F]lattery is the prolific parent of falsehood.

...the deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated...

I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

Sacredam! he cried, when his eyes lit upon Buck. Dat one dam bully dog! Eh? How moch?

Saints in heaven - how could they be anything but fair and pure? No praise to them. But saints in slime - ah, that was the everlasting wonder! That was what made life worth while.