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When you understand the power of praise, you cannot waste precious time on cursing the enemy, but rather be steadfast in praising God for the guaranteed victories. After all, there is no essence in fighting battles that are already won.

Without the inward attitude of the heart, you cannot praise God the way you should.

With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet will create his best poetry.

Yea... It's impossible to lead with true virtues if you surround yourself with praise singers... people who do not cheer you up, instead of cheering up your dreams!

Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.

Worship is pure wonder.

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ the beauty of a single sycamore. You are Xerxes in Persia. Your army spreads on a vast and arid peneplain…you call to you all your sad captains, and give the order to halt. You have seen the tree with the lights in it, haven’t you? You must have. Xerxes buffeted on a plain, ambition drained in a puff. Your men are bewildered…there is nothing to catch the eye in this flatness, nothing but a hollow, hammering sky, a waste of sedge in the lee of windblown rocks, a meager ribbon of scrub willow tracing a slumbering watercourse…and that sycamore. You saw it; you will stand rapt and mute, exalted, remembering or not remembering over a period of days to shade your head with your robe. “He had its form wrought upon a medal of gold to help him remember it the rest of his life.” We all ought to have a goldsmith following us around. But it goes without saying, doesn’t it, Xerxes, that no gold medal worn around your neck will bring back the glad hour, keep those lights kindled so long as you live, forever present? Pascal saw it; he grabbed pen and paper and scrawled the one word, and wore it sewn in his shirt the rest of his life. I don’t know what Pascal saw. I saw a cedar. Xerxes saw a sycamore.

You are a great God!

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxygen. Wouldn’t it be simpler just to rough in a slab of chemicals, a green acre of goo? You are a man, a retired railroad worker who makes replicas as a hobby. You decide to make a replica of one tree, the longleaf pine your great-grandfather planted- just a replica- it doesn’t have to work. How are you going to do it? How long do you think you might live, how good is your glue? For one thing, you are going to have to dig a hole and stick your replica trunk halfway to China if you want the thing to stand up. Because you will have to work fairly big; if your replica is too small, you’ll be unable to handle the slender, three-sided needles, affix them in clusters of three in fascicles, and attach those laden fascicles to flexible twigs. The twigs themselves must be covered by “many silvery-white, fringed, long-spreading scales.” Are your pine cones’ scales “thin, flat, rounded at the apex?” When you loose the lashed copper wire trussing the limbs to the trunk, the whole tree collapses like an umbrella. You are a sculptor. You climb a great ladder; you pour grease all over a growing longleaf pine. Next, you build a hollow cylinder around the entire pine…and pour wet plaster over and inside the pine. Now open the walls, split the plaster, saw down the tree, remove it, discard, and your intricate sculpture is ready: this is the shape of part of the air. You are a chloroplast moving in water heaved one hundred feet above ground. Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen in a ring around magnesium…you are evolution; you have only begun to make trees. You are god- are you tired? Finished?

You are not honored for the fruit you pick, but for the trees you plant.

​You can always tell when someone deserves the praise and recognition they receive, because it humbles them rather than inflating their ego.

You've to close down your umbrella when you are under a canopy. Drop your pride; give praise to God!

You can't be passionate about gratitude and be crippled by ingratitude.

You don't need to change who you are to praise God.

YOU might be limited by a life situation, but GOD is never hampered. Praise Him!

Your personality should be described in poem not in paragraph.

You should have a praise in your mouth, if not you must be death.

You were amazing," Sam said. I let that sink in. Samirah wasn't big on doling out praise any more than Mallory wa big on doling out apologies. "Well, it wasn't poetry," I said at last. "More like pure panic." "Maybe there's not much difference," Sam said. "Besides just take the compliment, Chase.

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

You don't need to change who you are to praise the God.

You honor the dead by honoring the living.

You need to know the truth to be able to praise God

Your mind, your motion and your expression is an animation to marvel and to praise.

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.

Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire, they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

All appreciations and praises are worthless unless the one you love appreciates

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

Although God certainly knows all our needs, praying for them changes our attitude from complaint to praise and enables us to participate in God’s personal plan for our lives.

Always praise 'em before you hit 'em.

Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

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

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

All of creation is a song of praise to God.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

Always make the other person feel important.

An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.