Quotes about Praise
Humility is the flip side of giving God all the glory. Humility means reveling in his grace, not our goodness.
— John Piper
All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
— John Piper
God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything else, would be sin, as there is nothing greater than God, there is no calling greater than praising God.
— John Piper
This is the meaning of Christmas. Oh, that God would waken your heart to your deep need for mercy as a sinner! And then ravish your heart with a great Savior, Jesus Christ. And then release your tongue to praise him and your hands to make his mercy shine in yours.
— John Piper
This is why it is often called sovereign grace: it raises the dead. The dead do not raise themselves. God does by his grace. And it is this "glorious grace" that will be praised for all eternity.
— John Piper
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)
— John Piper
The world and even thousands of Christians give no praise and thanks to God for millions of daily, life-sustaining providences because they do not see the world as the theater of God's wonders. They see it as a vast machine running on mindless natural laws
— John Piper
praise comes from God as we renounce the pursuit of praise from others.
— John Piper
The aim of the climb is not intellectual satisfaction. The aim is worship. God gets more honor when we worship on the basis of what we know about him than he gets if we worship on the basis of what we don't know.
— John Piper
God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about him. Indeed
— John Piper
1) Singing can help us remember words, which means that we should use melodies that are effective, sing words that God wants us to remember
— John Piper
I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.
— John Piper