I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.
Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
Give praise to others while they are here; they won't need it in the hereafter.
O hasten, Lord, these promised days, When Israel shall rejoice, And Jew and Gentile join in praise, With one united voice!
Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
Don’t get high off praises, and don’t get too low on critiques.
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.
If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.
Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
Nothing has a letter effect upon children than praise.
It's not that we should declare the praises of God. It's that we may.
Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.