Top 1200 Praise God Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

As much as I really love the praise and affection I get when my work is appreciated, it doesn't translate to money in the bank.

The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

We found that process praise predicted the child's mindset and desire for challenge five years later.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

One thing for certain you will not ever hear from me is praise for dictators and strongmen who have no love for America.

Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.

Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.

The idea of a judgment of history is secularism's vain, meaningless, hopeless, pathetic attempt to devise a substitute for what the great Abrahamic traditions of faith know is the final judgment of almighty God, who is not an impersonal force. History is not God. God is God. History is not our judge. God is our Judge.

If you find it difficult to love the human in someone, then love the divine in him. The divine in him is God. God exists in that person just as God exists in you. To love God is extremely easy because God is divine and perfect. Each time you look at an individual, if you can consciously become aware of God's existence in him, then you will not be disturbed by his or her imperfections or limitations.

Be open, and God starts pouring into you like wine from every nook and corner of existence. Then wherever you look, you find God. Then whatsoever you touch, you find God. Then whatsoever you drink and eat, you find God. And when God pours from everywhere, then life is a celebration.

The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.

For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

There is nothing small about our God, and when we understand God we will find out that there ought not to be anything small about us. We must have an enlargement of our conception of God, then we will know that we have come to a place where all things are possible, for our God is an omnipotent God for impossible positions.

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?

Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

This is the key to understanding the virgin birth. God's Word is full of faith and spirit power. God spoke it. God transmitted that image to Mary. She received the image inside of her. .. the embryo that was in Mary's womb was nothing more than the Word of God. .. She conceived the Word of God.

President Obama deserves our unalloyed praise for hastening Osama bin Laden's demise.

One of my pet hates is people re-Tweeting praise, I loathe it more than anything else in the world.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

[Gandhi] said, "I want to find God, and because I want to find God, I have to find God along with other people. I don't believe I can find God alone. If I did, I would be running to the Himalayas to find God in some cave there. But since I believe that nobody can find God alone, I have to work with people. I have to take them with me. Alone I can't come to Him."

What is God like? Because millions and millions of people were taught that the primary message - the center of the Gospel of Jesus - is that God is going to send you to hell, unless you believe in Jesus. And so, what gets, subtlely, sort of caught and taught is that Jesus rescues you from God. But what kind of God is that; that we would need to be rescued from this God? How could that God ever be good; how could that God ever be trusted? And how could that ever be good news.

God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he must have been less powerful in the past than he is today.... We may be certain that, through self-effort, the inherent and innate powers of God have been developed to a God-like degree. Thus he has become God.

When we unravel the theological tomes of the ages, the makeup of God becomes quite clear. God is a human being without human limitations who is read into the heavens. We disguised this process by suggesting that the reason God was so much like a human being was that the human beings were in fact created in God's image. However, we now recognize that if was the other way around. The God of theism came into being as a human creation. As such, this God, too, was mortal and is now dying.

We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image.

God intended Earth. God intended the waters. God intended you and me. We were created in the image and the likeness of God; we are holograms, if you will. So the power, the presence, the energy is within you and me. The energy of God, as life, is within each of us.

From his moment of victory, a kinder, gentler Donald Trump - praise for the opponent he promised to jail.

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.

You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.

The Bible is not God, nor is it a substitute for God, and to treat it as if it were God or a surrogate of God is to treat it in the very way that it itself condemns over and over again.

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.