Quotes about Praise

We bowed our heads together, and I prayed and then Nimmie prayed. Hers was a beautiful, simple prayer, beginning in faith and repentance and ending with joy and praise.

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.

In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.

God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.

I can whine —or— I can worship!

We had come to this place to offer something to God, namely, the sacrifice of praise. I came to realize that there was more than a mere difference in phraseology between this and what I had always thought of as worship. There was a difference in vision.

We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our silence in the presence of His infinitely rich silence, our joy in the bosom of the serene darkness in which His light holds us absorbed, it is all this that praises Him.

To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.

The real purpose of meditation is this: to teach a man how to work himself free of created things and temporal concerns, in which he finds only confusion and sorrow, and enter into a conscious and loving contact with God in which he is disposed to receive from God the help he knows he needs so badly, and to pay to God the praise and honor and thanksgiving and love which it has now become his joy to give.