Quotes about Praise

Increase this love in me, that in my innermost being I may taste the sweetness of your love. Melt my heart that I may swim in your love...Let me sing the song of your love and follow you into heaven, my beloved. Let my soul soar in your praise and rejoice in your love. Let me love you more than myself, and love myself only in you.

You do not grow in holiness because of the praise you receive, nor do you become evil because of the blame poured upon you.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Your sole desire should be the glory of God, not the praise of others.

Seek a suitable time for thy meditation, and think frequently of the mercies of God to thee.

Nature has a relish for knowing secrets and hearing news. It wishes to appear abroad and to have sense experiences. It wishes to be known and to do things for which it will be praised and admired. But grace does not care to hear news or curious matters, because all this arises from the old corruption of man, since there is nothing new, nothing lasting on earth.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

Gregory says (Moral. xxxii, 7): "He is in glory, Who whilst He rejoices in Himself, needs not further praise.

All moral choices are free choices. No one can be praised or blamed for an act in which they had no free choice. If they were forced to do it, then they can't get either credit or blame. Hence if God destroyed all freedom, He would be destroying all possibility to love, praise, and worship Him — to say nothing of destroying all possibility of our enjoying His or other people's love, praise, and sacrifice on our behalf.

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

God is my strength and my fortress. I will rejoice in God my Savior.

Doubt they had ever heard anyone sing in that dungeon before.