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The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.

The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.

The villain's censure is extorted praise.

The work praises the man.

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

Those who praise themselves do not prevail.

Those who turn proud when their praise is sounded, who seek their own glory, not Christ's, or those who are moved by slanders and by infamy, had better leave the ministry of the Word.

Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise.

To praise one thing is not to damn another.

To praise is an investment in happiness.

Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.

To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.

To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we open, we reach, we grow.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.

We must teach plainly that the faith which saves the soul is not a dead faith, but a faith which operates with purifying effect upon our entire nature, and produces in us fruits of righteousness to the praise and glory of God.

We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.

We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.