Inspirational Quotes on 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.”

“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.”

“Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.”

“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.”

“To sweeten success, try a little praise.”

“The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.”

“Praise is not only speaking to the Lord on our own account, but it is praising Him for what He has done for others.”

“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.”

“The climax of God's happiness is the delight He takes in the echoes of His excellence in the praises of His people.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Spurgeon challenges us to go to the river of our experience, to pull up bulrushes, and to place them in the Ark of our memory, experiencing again the wonder that allowed our infant faith to flourish.”

“People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.”

“If we have a praise church we will have people converted.”

“It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?”

“The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.”

“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.”

“Faith comes through God's Word and through praise. Faith grows as you praise the Lord. ”

“When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.”

“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?”