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Quotes About Praise

Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.
~ Rick Warren
Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?
~ Robert Sheckley
God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, you piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God
~ David Platt
We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.
~ Frederick Buechner
Our point, however, is not to worship the Bible; we worship the God of the Bible.
~ John H. Walton
Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.
~ John Piper
Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He's crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.
~ John Piper
Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].
~ Beth Moore
Worship is just responding to the greatness of God.
~ Bob Rice
Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'
~ C. S. Lewis
The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.
~ Daniel J. Bernstein
If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.
~ Epictetus
Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?
~ J. C. Ryle
God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
~ J. I. Packer
Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God!
~ John Newton
In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).
~ John Piper
Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.
~ Orson Scott Card
The only person who could make me stop singing is the one who made me sing: God, the beauty up there!
~ Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira
Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows. Where there is no spirit of worship, there God has been dethroned and displaced.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer