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We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. — Annie Dillard

This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator. — Meister Eckhart

Criticism was heavy these days, and that one scrap of praise was like water in the desert. — Kiera Cass

Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God's love for them. 9 But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you. — Anonymous

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise. — Elia Kazan

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise. — Giacomo Leopardi

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this. — Louisa May Alcott

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business. — Edward Heath

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues. — Bono

Find the Good and Praise it" by Alex Haley — Alex Haley

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. — John Ruskin

A man that does not love praise is not a full man. — Henry Ward Beecher

Praise is pushing back my daily worries and impending tasks to acknowledge my always present, never changing God. — Kathi Lambrides Westlund

The Lord is great.
The Lord is gracious. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your perspective changes when you put God first by praising Him! — Andrew Wommack

The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise. — Alexander MacLaren

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height. — Edward Abbey

Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets. — Anne Lamott

We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe. — Jean Rostand

Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.) — J.D. Salinger

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. — Mary Kay Ash

I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise. — Noel Coward

There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

So laugh, lads, and quaff, lads, twill make you stout and hale; through all my days, I'll sing the praise of brown October ale. — Reginald De Koven

Great is the glory of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The world will praise you one moment and defame you the next. So why should we care for praise or defamation? — Dada Bhagwan

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it. — John Masefield

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty. — Dogen

Green be the turf above thee,
Friend of my better days!
None knew thee but to love thee,
Nor named thee but to praise. — Fitz-Greene Halleck

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about. — C.S. Lewis

I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have ever worked and I've worked in a lot of nice places. — Roxanne McKee

There are entire congregations who worship praise and praise worship but who have not yet learned to praise and worship God in Jesus Christ. — Judson Cornwall

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. — Pietro Aretino

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad. — Charles Fillmore

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise. — Mason Cooley

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. — Alexander Pope

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Out of the fires of refinement, come the praise of His magnificence, the brilliance of His glory, and the honor of His precious Son, Jesus Christ. — Robin Bertram

We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we open, we reach, we grow. — Gerhard E Frost

Church: if the world could see a snapshot of our worship today, would they perceive that we believe our God is worthy of praise? — Matt Papa

Praise is the highest occupation of any being — Max Lucado

Praise
the invisible sun burning beyond
the white cold sky, giving us
light and the chimney's shadow. — Denise Levertov

An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise. — Evan Esar

Our God is a great God. Indeed, He is the God of wonders. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Compassion Judgment Loving-Kindness Compassion Is A Force Disconnection Self-Blame and Compassion Praise and Blame — Sharon Salzberg

I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself. — Henry David Thoreau

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts. — Nagarjuna

I do not speak of what I cannot praise. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative. — Zig Ziglar

I will blame no enemy that is a good man, nor yet praise a friend that is bad — Theognis

When you are praising or blessing you are on the highest frequency of love. — Rhonda Byrne

Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off). — Omar Suleiman

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will. — Josh Billings

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

Worship is not about having a fantastic voice. — Temi Peters

Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up. — Richard Branson

2 Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth - a stranger, not your own lips. — Anonymous

Submission to God is praying with your knees bow. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt. — Neil Finn

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance. — Samuel Johnson

Those who are patterns of mercy should be trumpets of praise. — Thomas Watson

All around the world, God is giving and sustaining life to the praise of his grace. His mercy is new every morning, and it's always morning somewhere. — Gloria Furman

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises ... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville

The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men. — Norm MacDonald

Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. — Tom Holland

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise. — George Orwell

Praise for others is no slight to yourself. — Lacey Deaver

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they like it. They should like it.' — Paul Auster

I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse. — Ovid

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD
Painful moments, TRUST GOD
Every moment, THANK GOD — Rick Warren

Testing time is the time for an increase in praise. — Sunday Adelaja

If somebody praises you; change the topic! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Passion produced out of prayer and praise pushes you to extremes. — Carl Lentz

Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him. — Khalil Gibran

Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves. — Hannah More

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness. — Allan Lokos

Never let too much criticism or too much praise get in your way. — Leonard Wolf

Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame. — Mason Cooley

If praise is celebrating God's awesome glory, then complaint is antipraise. — Paul David Tripp

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town. — Horace

The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

We don't praise God to feel good, but to do good. — Rick Warren

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The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted. — John Dryden

Although my heart is torn, I will praise you in this storm. — Casting Crowns

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man. — Gautama Buddha

I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel. — John Knox

To praise great actions is in some sense to share them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you. — Marcus Aurelius

Praise none too much, for all are fickle. — George Herbert

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels. — Thomas Watson

To praise oneself is considered improper, immodest; to praise one's own sect, one's own philosophy, is considered the highest duty. — Lev Shestov

When you praise someone you call yourself his equal. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous. — Walter Raleigh