Quotes about Praise

Were we ordered to make a temple of wood and stone to the Spirit, inasmuch as such worship is due to God alone, it would be a clear proof of the Spirit's divinity; how much clearer a proof in that we are not to make a temple to him, but to be ourselves that temple.

To hallow the name of God is simply to honor him as is his due, so that men shall not think or speak of him without the highest homage.

All who have not been influenced by the principle of self-denial, have followed virtue merely from the love of praise.

And, as Augustine expresses it (in Psalm cxliv.), since we are unable to comprehend Him, and are, as it were, overpowered by his greatness, our proper course is to contemplate his works, and

Every instance in which the mercy of God occurs to our remembrance, ought to be embraced by us as an occasion of ascribing glory to God.

It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."

Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'

A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.