Quotes about Praise
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
— Abraham Lincoln
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
— Pope John Paul II
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly
— Publilius Syrus
Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.
— Publilius Syrus
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires, the desire of riches, of pleasure, of power, and of praise,—and duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will, is in a degree lost; new imagery ceases to be created, and old words are perverted to stand for things which are not; a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults. In
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God promises something that has never yet been true of the earthly Jerusalem: "I will make peace your governor and righteousness your ruler. No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise" (vv. 17-18).
— Randy Alcorn
five main components of worship: the Lord's Supper, teaching, prayer, praise, and giving.
— Ravi Zacharias