57 Quotes About Praise

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

If we would talk more about the Lord and praise Him, we would have less time to talk about ourselves.

I don't care where it is, what part of the world it's in, if we have a praise church we'll have successful christianity.

Satan so hates the genuine praise of Christ that his fiery darts of discouragement are not effective against us when we respond in praise.

The climax of God's happiness is the delight He takes in the echoes of His excellence in the praises of His people.

Faith comes through God's Word and through praise. Faith grows as you praise the Lord.

The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

Let us ever remember that God recognizes every expression of praise and of His people's love. He knows so well what His love and grace are to us that He must expect us to praise Him.

Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord.

Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent, I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not the thunder praise Him as it rolls like drums in the march of the God of armies? Do not the mountains praise Him when the woods upon their summits wave in adoration? Doth not the lightning write His name in letters of fire? Hath not the whole earth a voice? And shall I, can I, silent be?

If you had a thousand crowns you should put them all on the head of Christ! And if you had a thousand tongues they should all sing his praise, for he is worthy!"

It is not sufficient to offer the empty vessel of our joy unto God, or our singing voice in musical tune only; but also it is required that we fill our joyful voice with holy matter and good purpose, whereby God only may be reasonably praised.

I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.

The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism will build us up. But if praise inflates us, then criticism will crush us; and both responses lead to our defeat.

The more you praise God, the more you become God-conscious and absorbed in His greatness, wisdom, faithfulness, and love. Praise reminds you of all that God is able to do and of great things He has already done.

Praise lies upon a higher plain than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle around myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration, seeing and praising only the majesty and power of God, His grace and redemption.

I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Unto no duty are we more dull and untoward, than to the praise of God, and thanksgiving unto him; neither is there any duty whereunto there is more need that we should be stirred up.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

No chorus is too loud, no orchestra too large, no Psalm too lofty for the lauding of the Lord of Hosts.

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

Every good gift that we have had from the cradle up has come from God. If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.

All hangs on Himself, whether to sustain faith or to lead forth praise.

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

If we have a praise church we will have people converted.

Like supernatural effervescence, praise will sometimes bubble up from the joy of simply knowing Christ. Praise like that is...delight. Pure pleasure! But praise can also be supernatural determination. A decisive action. Praise like that is...quiet resolve. Fixed devotion. Strength of spirit.

To sweeten success, try a little praise.

Self-love may lead us to prayers, but love to God excites us to praises.

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.

We have in our churches a great deal of prayer, but I think it would be a good thing if we had a praise meeting occasionally. If we could only get people to praise God for what He has done, it would be a good deal better than asking Him continually for something.

Those who invest more into a relationship with Jesus will have a greater sense of rejoicing in Him.

A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does.

There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offense was slain; But the Lord is risen today, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

Praise not people to their faces, to the end that they may pay thee in the same coin. This is so thin a cobweb, that it may with little difficulty be seen through; 'tis rarely strong enough to catch flies of any considerable magnitude.

God's pursuit of my praise of Him is not weak self-seeking but the epitome of self-giving love! If my satisfaction in Him is incomplete until expressed in praise of Him for satisfying me, then God's effort to solicit my worship is both the most loving thing He could possibly do for me and the most glorifying thing He could possibly do for Himself. For in my gladness in Him is His glory in me.

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

The height of our praising of God is to put the work of praising God upon himself, and to point him out unto others as going about the magnifying of his own name, and to be glad for it.

The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God and sleep to God and work to God and talk to God, do all to His glory and praise.

The weight of offering praise unto God is too heavy for men to lift; and as for angels, it will take up all their strength and their best abilities to go about it.

Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.

Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.

When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.

When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace.

We rejoice because God is good regardless of our circumstances.

Praise is not only speaking to the Lord on our own account, but it is praising Him for what He has done for others.