Quotes about Praise
Sayin' give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right. Sayin' let's get together and feel all right....There ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation
— Bob Marley
GIVE THANKS AND PRAISE THE LORD, AND WE'LL FEEL ALRIGHT LET'S GET TOGETHER AND FEEL ALRIGHT
— Bob Marley
Finally, by lifting our hands we symbolically receive everything God is doing in our lives.
— Bob Sorge
One day Surpresa was on his way to minister, and his car broke down. He walked eight hours in the rain, mile after mile, carrying a tire. He just sang the whole time, praising Jesus.
— Heidi Baker
Yes, I know better; God created man so that he might admire the splendour of the world. Every author, be he never so great, wants his work to be praised.
— Heinrich Heine
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
— Philip Schaff
Nevertheless, they who restrain baser lusts, not by the power of the Holy Spirit obtained by the faith of piety, or by the love of intelligible beauty, but by desire of human praise, or, at all events, restrain them better by the love of such praise, are not indeed yet holy, but only less base.
— St. Augustine
I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.
— St. Augustine
For evil men account those things alone evil which do not make men evil; neither do they blush to praise good things, and yet to remain evil among the good things they praise. It grieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if it were man's greatest good to have everything good but himself.
— St. Augustine
For so great is the influence of probity and chastity, that all men, or almost all men, are moved by the praise of these virtues; nor is any man so depraved by vice, but he hath some feeling of honor left in him. So that, unless the devil sometimes transformed himself, as Scripture says, into an angel of light, he could not compass his deceitful purpose.
— St. Augustine
Nevertheless, faithfully interrogate your own souls, whether ye have not been unduly puffed up by your integrity, and continence, and chastity; and whether ye have not been so desirous of the human praise that is accorded to these virtues, that ye have envied some who possessed them.
— St. Augustine
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.
— St. Augustine