We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
– Harry Ironside
Praise | Thankfulness | Discontentment
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.
– A. W. Tozer
Life | Praise | Freedom
The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
– Billy Graham
Evangelism | Praise | Consecration
Faith comes through God’s Word and through praise. Faith grows as you praise the Lord.
– Wesley L. Duewel
Faith | Praise
If we would talk more about the Lord and praise Him, we would have less time to talk about ourselves.
– M.R. DeHaan
Praise
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?
– Charles Spurgeon
Nature | Praise
The climax of God’s happiness is the delight He takes in the echoes of His excellence in the praises of His people.
– John Piper
Praise | Excellence
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.
– G.V. Wigram
Praise
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!”
– William Tiptaft
Jesus | Praise
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.
– Dwight L. Moody
Praise
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Praise
Satan so hates the genuine praise of Christ that his fiery darts of discouragement are not effective against us when we respond in praise.
– William Thrasher
Satan | Praise
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.
– Jonathan Edwards
Praise | Enemies | Light
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.
– David Dickson
Music | Praise
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.
– Ole Hallesby
Praise
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.
– Warren Wiersbe
Praise | Pride | Criticism
I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.
– C.S. Lewis
Praise
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.
– Blaise Pascal
Praise | Reading
No chorus is too loud, no orchestra too large, no Psalm too lofty for the lauding of the Lord of Hosts.
– Charles Spurgeon
Praise
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.
– David Dickson
Praise | Thankfulness
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.
– Dwight L. Moody
Praise
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.
– Wesley L. Duewel
Praise
Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.
– Charles Spurgeon
Prayer | Praise
To sweeten success, try a little praise.
– Woodrow Kroll
Success | Praise
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.
– William Law
Praise | Life
Those who invest more into a relationship with Jesus will have a greater sense of rejoicing in Him.
– Crystal McDowell
Praise | Worship
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.
– Isaac Watts
Praise
There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.
– Charles Spurgeon
Praise
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ‘but’.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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!
– Martin Luther
Praise
All hangs on Himself, whether to sustain faith or to lead forth praise.
– G.V. Wigram
Faith | Praise
If we have a praise church we will have people converted.
– Dwight L. Moody
Praise
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.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Praise | Joy
People blush at praise–not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.
– C.S. Lewis
Praise
Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.
– Matthew Henry
Prayer | Praise
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.
– Thomas Fuller
Praise
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.
– Sam Storms
Praise
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
– C.S. Lewis
Praise
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
– John Calvin
Praise
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.
– David Dickson
Praise
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.
– Richard Sibbes
Praise | Thankfulness
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.
– David Dickson
Praise
Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.
– Albert Barnes
Praise
Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.
– Albert Barnes
Praise
When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.
– A. B. Simpson
Praise | Feelings
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Praise
We rejoice because God is good regardless of our circumstances.
– Crystal McDowell
Praise
Praise is not only speaking to the Lord on our own account, but it is praising Him for what He has done for others.
– Dwight L. Moody
Praise
Self-love may lead us to prayers, but love to God excites us to praises.
– Thomas Manton
Self-love | Praise
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Praise
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
– Jonathan Edwards
Praise | Happiness
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.
– Dwight L. Moody
Praise | Church
Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.
– Owen Feltham
Praise | Foolishness | Modesty
Any victory that does not more than conquer is just an imitation victory. While we are suppressing and wrestling, we are only imitating victory. If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, “Hallelujah! Praise the Lord” forever.
– Watchman Nee
Praise | Victory
Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God’s pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.
– Rick Warren
Praise | Attitude
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
– Thomas Fuller
Praise
When God does it, we do more than remember it–we celebrate it.
– Woodrow Kroll
Praise