Top 1200 Praise God Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another . . . It's all praise, and it's all right.

It is always positive when you get a lot of praise, but you should handle it the right way.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.

Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers. God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers-he is offended by Anything Less. If your prayers aren't impossible to You, they are insulting to God- why? Because they don't require divine intervention. But ask God to part the Red Sea or make the sun stand still or float an iron axhead and God is moved to Omnipotent action

We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we open, we reach, we grow.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.

But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

Accomplishments of children shine most brightly in the light of a parent's sincere praise.

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.

I don't have enough words to praise Fakhar Zaman, Hasan Ali and Shadab Khan.

I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

I think coaches who don't coddle but praise players when they deserve it get the best results.

To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .

Most important, do not ever think that you and God are separate. Think always, "God is with me; He is inside me; He is around me. All there is is God. I myself am God. I am the Infinite, the Eternal. I am not two; I am one, only one. There is no one else besides me. I and God are one and the same." To realize this Unity, the first step is to develop Self-confidence. It comes when you realize that God is not outside of you.

God bless every soul that we lost. God bless the families who have to endure that loss, and God guide us to our reunion in heaven, and God bless the United States of America.

I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.

Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it.

Don't wait until people do things exactly right before you praise them.

Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

Still I made one excuse after another, and Jesus would answer, 'Go, and I will be with you'... Then Jesus said again, 'Go, and I will be with you.' I cried, 'Lord, I will go. Where shall I go?' And Jesus said, 'Go here, go there, wherever souls are perishing.' Praise the Lord for his wonderful goodness in revealing his word and will in such a wonderful way, to such a poor weak worm of the dust. I saw more in that vision than I could have learned in years of hard study. Praise His Holy Name. I saw that I must not depend on anything that I could do, but to look to Him for strength and wisdom.

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.