Quotes about Praise
He who sings prays twice.
— St. Augustine
How can the sun and the moon praise God as the prophet exhorts them to do? By perfectly carrying out the role God has given them. Thus they render Him great praise. Behold, therefore, a wonderful means by which you can praise God all day: do your duty and whatever else you are given to do well.
— St. Jerome
In the old law, God was praised both with musical instruments, and human voices. But the church does not use musical instruments to praise God, lest she should seem to judaize.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.
— William Wordsworth
[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.
— Gordon Fee
I praise the God of grace; I trust His truth and might; He calls me His, I call Him mine. My God, my joy and light
— Horatius Bonar
The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it's meant also to be sung.
— RC Sproul
Dear God, Thank you for waking me up today and for your everlasting love and never ending mercy and for my blessed day ahead.
— Germany Kent
The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'
— RC Sproul
God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.
— John Piper
Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.
— Kevin DeYoung
Lord, let not our souls be busy inns that have no room for thee or thine, But quiet homes of prayer and praise, where thou mayest find fit company, Where the needful cares of life are wisely ordered and put away, And wide, sweet spaces kept for thee; where holy thoughts pass up and down And fervent longings watch and wait thy coming.
— Julian of Norwich