Top 1200 Praise God Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.

If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.

How hard is it for God to get your attention? Do you regularly practice turning aside in your day? That is, taking a moment to listen to God- because God, through the Holy Spirit, really is speaking, because we know, every place is filled with the presence of God. There is not an inch of space, not a moment of time, that God does not inhabit.

It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting not the real God but their own erroneous and stereotypical image of God. Frequently this is because they have thought of God solely in terms of thunderings at Sinai without pondering substance. . . .

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

And I, the for­mer mys­tic, was think­ing: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve de­ceived You, You chased them from par­adise. When You were dis­pleased by Noah’s generation, You brought down the Flood. When Sodom lost Your fa­vour, You caused the heav­ens to rain down fire and damna­tion. But look at these men whom You have be­trayed, al­low­ing them to be tortured, slaugh­tered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray be­fore You! They praise Your name!

We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.

God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.

Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock.

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.

To glorify God means to think and act in such a way that the goodness, greatness, and beauty of God are constantly obvious to ourselves and all those around us. It means to live in such a way that when people see us they think, Thank God for God, if God would create such a life.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

In various ways all of us should be constantly finding people and situations that are dead, buried, and covered up in order to help bring them to the light because THE GOD THAT WE SERVE is a God of LIGHT, a God of LOVE, and a God of CARING.

The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

It is not insignificant that my first apprehension of the love of God was granted in an experience with my father. Nor is it generally uncommon that God is apprehended in experience. Nor, in fact, can the divine and human meeting happen any other way. God is not a God of the pulpit, though the pulpit proclaim him. He is a God in and of the histories of humankind. What is significant is that I should have to say so.

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.

Seek to be made holier every day; pray, strive, wrestle for the spirit, to make you like God. Be as much you can with God. I declare to you that I had rather be one hour with God than a thousand with the sweetest society on earth or in Heaven. All other joys are but streams; God is the fountain.

I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

The third major characteristic of God - "infinitude" - is the catchall, the universal modifier of Christian theology. God is not merely a being; he is infinite being. God is not merely good; he is infinite goodness. God is not merely wise; he is infinite wisdom. And so on down the list. God is exaggeration run amuck.

As I have come to realize that we all live and move and have our being in God, the names of each person, species, creature, and element are superimposed over God's name. God is reality; God is the source of reality of each of us. Panentheism seeing the world as in God - puts God's "name" first, but each of our names are included and preserved in their distinctiveness within the divine reality.

There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life.

True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.

At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.

I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

So, how to become friends with money? First, you have to forget everything you've ever been told about it. And then you have to put in its place a new message: There's nothing in the universe that isn't God. And God, and the energy which is God, is found in everything, including money. It isn't like God is everywhere except in your billfold. In fact, God is everywhere.

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

In one of the accounts of Jesus's death we read that the curtain in the temple of God-the one that kept people out of the holiest place of God's presence-ripped.One New Testament writer said that this ripping was a picture of how, because of Jesus, we can have new, direct access to God.A beautiful idea.But the curtain ripping also means that God comes out, that God is no longer confined to the temple as God was previously.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".

PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.

This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.

May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls-and, above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship.

Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.

God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice. It is the same spirit that taunted, "If Thou be the Son of God, come down from the Cross." There is unbelief, there is even rebellion, in the attitude that says, "God has no right to do this to five men unless...

Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me.