Inspirational Quotes on Praise

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Who can comprehend the extent of that supreme homage which is due to the will of God?”

“It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.”

“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!"”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

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

“When God does it, we do more than remember it--we celebrate it.”

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

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