Top 1200 Praise And Thanksgiving Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture, like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays - beyond their meaning - a factor in our economy.

I am grateful to have my life back and for the friends and family who never gave up on me, for a God who was there when I was ready to find him. I am grateful for so much, that every day, one day at a time, is Thanksgiving.

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

The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.

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

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

Thanksgiving for God’s faithfulness in our pain is the indisputable proof that we believe God is a part of our pain.

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

I seriously don't take praise to my heart or to my head. I only want to work harder and never get complacent.

I seriously don't take praise to my heart or to my head. I only want to work harder and never get complacent.

Authentic gratitude is a way of life. When you wake up in the morning let your first thought be one of thanksgiving that you have another day to walk in the love of God. As you go through your day, see the Giver behind all of the gifts freely being given to you.

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

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done.

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

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

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

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

The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.

I've heard legends and maestros praise my voice. It's overwhelming. I'm a nobody who shouldn't be at the receiving end of the such comments, and I'm extremely humbled.

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

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

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

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

When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me.

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

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

Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet.

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

And we will move forward to our work, not howling out regrets like slaves whipped to their burdens, but with gratitude for a task worthy of our strength, and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world.

Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.

All revival begins, and continues, in the prayer meeting. Some have also called prayer the "great fruit of revival." In times of revival, thousands may be found on their knees for hours, lifting up their heartfelt cries, with thanksgiving, to heaven.

I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the 'history' I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all.

The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.

'I'm sorry,' guys are always telling women, 'but I'm just not ready to make a commitment.' Guys are in a permanent state of nonreadiness. If guys were turkey breasts, you could put them in a 350-degree oven on July Fourth, and they still wouldn't be done in time for Thanksgiving.

So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.

Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O'er every hill that under heaven expands.

Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity

I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.

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.

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

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

It's part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August, airport delays around Thanksgiving, expensive health care and the potential of being shot, at any time, by a semiautomatic weapon as we try to go about the most boring, precious, asinine aspects of our daily lives.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

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

O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace!

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.

When depression or suicidal thoughts weigh heavily, the hardest thing to do is to fight. My battle weapons are the Word of God, meditation, confession, community, and worship. But each evening I take my medication with a prayer of thanksgiving that God has provided this kind of help for those of us who need it.

There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

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

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

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

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.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.