Izaak Walton Quotes About Praise

Quotes about: Praise

• Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

  Izaak Walton

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 21

• Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

  Izaak Walton

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

• Of this blest man, let his just praise be given,
  Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Heaven, Grandfather

  Written in Dr Richard Sibbes's Returning Backslider, now preserved in Salisbury Cathedral Library

• And this, and many other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises: but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made that sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers, and showers, and stomachs, and meat, and content, and leisure to go a-fishing.

  Izaak Walton

  Gratitude, Flower, Sacrifice

  "The Complete Angler".

• He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.

  Izaak Walton

  Looks, Next, Praise

  The Compleat Angler Pt 1, Ch. 21

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