Praise Quotes - Page 39

• It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

  Lord Byron

  Voice, Giving, Mind

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.124, Cambridge University Press

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• Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

  John Strachan

  Ambition, Fighting, Men

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• No Scot ever made a bigger impact on a club than Bill Shankly. Others may claim an equal share of trophies and Matt Busby comes to mind with his wonderful record crowned by the European Cup, but not even Matt would claim the kinship with the fans that Bill enjoyed. He was what football was all about. I can't praise him higher than that.

  Jock Stein

  Football, Impact, Mind

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• God can say to His believers, 'I am divine and human,' and His believers can reply, 'Praise You, Lord. You are divine and human, and we are human and divine.'

  Witness Lee

  Lord, Divine, Believer

  Witness Lee (1990). “The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man”, p.51, Living Stream Ministry

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• Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Sympathy, Soul, Tongue

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.314

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• When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ... We now lavishly praise Frank Lloyd Wright, but we never made any community use of him, though he longed for the chance.

  Paul Goodman

  Artist, Men, Community

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 153), 1956.

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• If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, 'Hallelujah! Praise the Lord' forever.

  Watchman Nee

  Forever, Christ, Lord

  Watchman Nee (1997). “The Overcoming Life: The Basis for the Normal Christian Life”, p.163, Living Stream Ministry

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• Satan's aim is to destroy our joy and trust and delight in God, and to make God look worthless in the world's eyes. Everytime someone forsakes God for the world, gets angry at God when part of the world is taken away from them, they highlight the world as valuable... and everytime someone stays with God, when the world is taken away, and praises God, they highlight the value and glory of God.

  John Piper

  Faith, Religious, Taken

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• When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.

  Jeremy Renner

  Admire, Surreal

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Why do you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were temporary. You starve it, you let anyone touch it, you berate it. Tell it that it should be completely different. You tug at your soft flesh, wish it thinner, wish it gone. You fall in love with those who praise the way it sighs under their hands, but who praises the way it holds up your weight, even when you are falling apart?

  Warsan Shire

  Falling In Love, Hands, Wish

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• We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Thanksgiving, Moments, Silent

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.993, Delphi Classics

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• Those voices you hear are like the voice of a multitude, which lifts its sound on high; for jubilant praises, offered in simple harmony and charity, lead the faithful to that consonance in which is no discord, and make those who still live on earth sign with heart and voice for the heavenly reward.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Heart, Simple, Voice

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• Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Beautiful, Intelligent

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• But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.

  Martin Luther

  Names, Secret, Praying

  Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  School, Doe, Blame

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• This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name.

  Nahmanides

  Men, Names, Giving

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• Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work....When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.

  Joseph Haydn

  Piano, Giving, Each Day

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• Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

  Bruce Lee

  Giving, Effort, Desire

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.295, Tuttle Publishing

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• But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as some now venture to be, were building the Tower; for by the confusion of their language the unity of their intention was broken up, and their undertaking destroyed; so much more worthy of praise is the present miraculous one. For being poured from One Spirit upon many men, it brings them again into harmony. And there is a diversity of Gifts, which stands in need of yet another Gift to discern which is the best, where all are praiseworthy.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Men, Broken, Diversity

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• Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Love Is, Shining

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.158, New World Library

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• The friend who holds up before me the mirror, conceals not my smallest faults, warns me kindly, reproves me affectionately, when I have not performed my duty, he is my friend, however little he may appear so. But if a man praises and lauds me, never reproves me, overlooks my faults, and forgives them before I have repented, he is my enemy, however much he may appear my friend.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Men, Mirrors, Forgiving

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• If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him.

  Keith Green

  Writing, Hands, People

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• Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Crush, Difficult Situations, People

  Joni Eareckson Tada (1993). “A Quiet Place in a Crazy World: Drawing Near to God Through Prayer and Praise”, Multnomah

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• The government of the enlightened king? His achievements blanket the world but appear not to be his own doing. His transforming influence touches the ten thousand things but the people do not depend on him. With him there is no promotion or praise - he lets everything find its own enjoyment. He takes his stand on what cannot be fathomed and wanders where there is nothing at all.

  Burton Watson

  Kings, Government, People

  Burton Watson (2003). “Zhuangzi: Basic Writings”, p.92, Columbia University Press

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• What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven; but, homo (sapiens) fecit?

  Richard Wilbur

  Pride, Doors, Heaven

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