Quotes about Praise
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.
— William Wordsworth
[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.
— Gordon Fee
I praise the God of grace; I trust His truth and might; He calls me His, I call Him mine. My God, my joy and light
— Horatius Bonar
The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it's meant also to be sung.
— RC Sproul
Dear God, Thank you for waking me up today and for your everlasting love and never ending mercy and for my blessed day ahead.
— Germany Kent
The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'
— RC Sproul
God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.
— John Piper
Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.
— Kevin DeYoung
Lord, let not our souls be busy inns that have no room for thee or thine, But quiet homes of prayer and praise, where thou mayest find fit company, Where the needful cares of life are wisely ordered and put away, And wide, sweet spaces kept for thee; where holy thoughts pass up and down And fervent longings watch and wait thy coming.
— Julian of Norwich
Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no better when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, simple, and despicable; for what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Be praised, my Lord, through sister water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.
— Brennan Manning