Quotes About Praise

Psalm 22:3 says the Lord is "enthroned in the praises" of His people. Our praises are the throne from which He chooses to exert His authority. Satan, and Adam after him, tried to dethrone God. Praise enthrones Him.

satan attacks you only because you bear the image of the One whom he truly loathes. He is waging a war to erase God's image wherever it is displayed, hence his hatred for you. And the best way you can fight back is to reflect that image, the blinding light of God's glory, right back at him. That is what happens when Christians praise the Lord.

The celebration of God is simultaneously an act of war.

King David knew that the way out of depression was to exchange the spirit of heaviness for a garment of praise, because he was a covenant child of God.

The garment of praise is God's gift to empower you, to let you share in the thrill of His victory over satan,

There is a now Word of God for you, a now revelation from the Holy Spirit, that has direct bearing on your circumstances. Praise prepares you to receive this Word, by which God will reveal "the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself" (Eph. 1:9).

There never was, there never will be, a man who is always praised, or a man who is always blamed.

If we don't praise Him the rocks and tree's shall.

When young people want to praise themselves, they describe themselves as 'nonjudgmental.' For them, the highest form of morality is amorality.

But the fact that the debased culture of which rap music is a product receives such serious attention and praise deludes its listeners into supposing that nothing finer exists than what they already know and like. Such flattery is thus the death of aspiration, and lack of aspiration is, of course, one of the causes of passivity.

That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it.

Rejoice evermore. In every thing give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.

Increase this love in me, that in my innermost being I may taste the sweetness of your love. Melt my heart that I may swim in your love...Let me sing the song of your love and follow you into heaven, my beloved. Let my soul soar in your praise and rejoice in your love. Let me love you more than myself, and love myself only in you.

You do not grow in holiness because of the praise you receive, nor do you become evil because of the blame poured upon you.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Your sole desire should be the glory of God, not the praise of others.

Y así, no cualquier cosa alcanzada o multiplicada exteriormente aprovecha; sino más bien la despreciada y desarraigada del corazón. No entiendas eso solamente de las posesiones y de las riquezas; sino también de la ambición de la honra, y deseo de vanas alabanzas, todo lo cual pasa con el mundo.

Seek a suitable time for thy meditation, and think frequently of the mercies of God to thee.

Nature has a relish for knowing secrets and hearing news. It wishes to appear abroad and to have sense experiences. It wishes to be known and to do things for which it will be praised and admired. But grace does not care to hear news or curious matters, because all this arises from the old corruption of man, since there is nothing new, nothing lasting on earth.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

Gregory says (Moral. xxxii, 7): "He is in glory, Who whilst He rejoices in Himself, needs not further praise.

Books that have become classics -- books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal -- always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.