Quotes about Praise

This is why it is often called sovereign grace: it raises the dead. The dead do not raise themselves. God does by his grace. And it is this "glorious grace" that will be praised for all eternity.

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)

The world and even thousands of Christians give no praise and thanks to God for millions of daily, life-sustaining providences because they do not see the world as the theater of God's wonders. They see it as a vast machine running on mindless natural laws

praise comes from God as we renounce the pursuit of praise from others.

The aim of the climb is not intellectual satisfaction. The aim is worship. God gets more honor when we worship on the basis of what we know about him than he gets if we worship on the basis of what we don't know.

God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about him. Indeed

1) Singing can help us remember words, which means that we should use melodies that are effective, sing words that God wants us to remember

I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you" (1Chronicles 29:14). This is the way we should speak of fasting. There is no ground of boasting here. Who am I that I should be able to fast? Nobody. There is nothing in me that would choose this for your glory apart from your transforming grace.

True worship must include inward feelings that reflect the worth of God's glory.

The rejoicing of all peoples in God, and the magnifying of God's glory are one end, not two. Why

If we aim in what we do to display God's glory, we worship.